Word: disco
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...Jacobs jacket with a $3 vintage dress. It's Christian Louboutin's Trash line--one-of-a-kind shoes with found objects like boarding passes, foreign currency and feathers tucked into a clear outer lining. It's a music collection that includes everything from a vinyl EP of the disco-punk band the Rapture to Whitney Houston singing The Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl. "There's a pride taken in being open minded, whether that's Top 40 music or some obscure German laptop artist," says Margot Nason, director of trends at Youth Intelligence, a firm that tracks...
...walk down Tanjong Pagar in Chinatown on Friday or Saturday night, the gay (or straight) visitor will be impressed by the vivacity of the area: a clutch of discos, bars and restaurants, with guys and gals in their hundreds wandering from one rowdy place to another, often arm in arm (although kissing in public seems to still be taboo, even in gay venues). Gay life is not confined to a pink ghetto, though. There's a lively disco at Centro, opposite the venerable Fullerton hotel, that stages a gay event on Sunday nights just a short walk from the High...
...Singapore, years of discreetly living with anti-gay laws have created a mix of attitudes that might confuse the gay tourist used to firmer lines being drawn between gay and straight nightlife. Beautiful young girls in short dresses are dancing to techno with their boyfriends at the Water Bar disco in Chinatown on a Saturday night, right next to a group of funky gay Asians, while a more mature Caucasian in black is doing Mick Jagger imitations with a tall, brush-cut young Chinese in baggy jeans. But wander over to Taboo, the must-go, packed-out gay disco...
...destination after years of pathologically watching “Antiques Roadshow” (almost as good as mullet-spotting at the local Wal-Mart during the one and only summer I spent in Vermont), as well as those public-access programs where someone films his own Harlem dance party/wedding/roller disco, complete with a man in a dashiki, unstoppable Latin swingers and crazy xylophonists and sax players (wearing sunglasses inside at night, of course...
...kids have visited, indulging in 25-minute facials at $40 a session and henna tattoos ranging from $4 to $20, depending on the design. As opposed to the Zen-like calm of the resort's adult spa, SPAhhhT's treatment rooms are tricked out in psychedelic colors and play disco music. Hyatt has started similar programs at eight of its other hotels...