Original Fiorucci 15th Anniversary Party at Studio 54 flyer, featuring Madonna (in her debut public performance), May 19, 1983

New York: Fiorucci, 1983. Vintage flyer for the Fiorucci 15th Anniversary Party at Studio 54, which featured Madonna in her debut public performance, on May 19, 1983. The flyer, which also served as a ticket for two, is printed on the recto and the verso, with the acts listed on the verso as Man Parrish, Project Nebadon, Surprise Surprise Surprise, Madonna and Dancers, and Fun Fun Fun.

Just over two months before releasing her five-times platinum hit eponymous debut album on July 27, 1983, then-unknown Madonna's first public performance began erupting from a giant pink and white inflatable birthday cake at Fiorucci's 15th Anniversary Party at Studio 54. New York's Fiorucci store, then known as the "daytime Studio 54," had tight ties to the emerging pop icon—Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, was an employee during the early 1980s, and the company's art director, the jewelry designer Maripol, was responsible for Madonna's look throughout most of the 1980s.

A unique artifact of New York's cultural scene of the early 1980s, capturing a confluence of some of the city's most prominent influences of the period: Fiorucci at the height of the store's influence and popularity, legendary nightclub Studio 54 in its second incarnation under the helm of Mark Fleischman, and Madonna, immediately before she was to become one of pop culture's most groundbreaking and recognizable figures.

6.75 x 9.75. Very Good plus, with some light creasing, and a dampstain along the bottom edge, primarily visible on the verso.


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