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Article: Face time: the next generation of New York's legendary vogue scene takes center stage.
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- The Fader
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- September 1, 2008
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Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn has never had a globally renowned fashion week, but at The Lab on this sweltering Thursday night in June, the wooden floorboards at the warehouse-cum-club have been turned into a makeshift runway. As bootleg house remixes of Lil Wayne, Huey and The-Dream play, a procession of guys, dolls and trannies command attention in tailored streetwear. They show off perfectly refined pauses and turns and perform studied, fabulous head flips as professional and glamorous as any couture model.
But this is just the warm up. It's still only 2AM, and the party's got a good five, six hours left in it. Every twenty minutes a new ...