Remember Club USA, quite possibly the last of New York‘s super-clubs, just off then still-seedy Times Square?  GenXers, myself included, probably  do. For those who don’t, Wednesday night’s terrific Moschino x H&M show and party served as a perfect reminder (whether intended or not).

The set at Pier 36 – the screens, LED ticker tapes, skyscraper backdrops, and more  – evoked that Nineties Gotham moment. So did the kids, the glamazons, the drag queens, and Amanda Lepore, who sat with Marc Jacobs and fiancé Char Defrancesco in the front row.

What followed was a marvelous mashup of Jeremy Scott‘s favored tropes: colorful club kids, Nineties hip hop (by way of TLC denim overalls circa Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg), blingy chains that nodded to those Moschino belts we all wanted in the 1980s, and Baseball shirt dresses. The looks were delivered with a side of whimsy tailor-made for the MTV generation. The network’s iconic logo even popped up on several looks including a towel wrap.

Scott had all the supers on hand with three Hadids (Gigi, Bella, and Anwar), Joan Smalls, Duckie Thot, Imaan Hamam, Dilone, Candice Swanepoel, Isabel Fontana, Stella Maxwell, and Winnie Harlow. Naomi Campbell, aka Queen (or Naomajesty, as bff Pat McGrath prefers to call her), closed the show to thundering applause.

The music was just as memorable.  Think Run-D.M.C.’s It’s like That, Salt-N-Pepa’s Push It, and M/A/R/R/S’ Pump Up The Volume, and you get the picture.

This was a journey into sound, and style.