Anne slowey biography

When I moved to New York City in , punk rock was jostling its studded-leather-jacket shoulders onto the scene.

Disco was on its last legs, but Studio 54 was still the place to work the dance floor, with that mix of glitterati, literati, politicians, movie stars, and rock gods that seemed to come together only in New York. Only in New York! Words to live by for a culture-starved girl from the Midwest.

That was the year Stephen Sprouse launched his Day-Glo brights; Swatch introduced its first watch; and Diana Ross performed her free concert in Central Park. One-hit wonder Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" dominated the airwaves, along with Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"

Growing up in South Bend, Indiana, a small town verging on suburbia, my only link to that world was the Interview magazines I bought at a head shop and the backstage passes to rock concerts my h