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Out of the Closet: The Fancy Phenomenon

On a crisp evening in early March, I stood with Rio Saitō outside the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, to photograph and interview a growing costumed crowd of spellbinding beauty and eccentricity, all chattering and glittering by the door. This was the night of the Dances of Vice Wonderland in Spring Ball; the next night we would be attending another Dances of Vice affair, Mood Indigo: A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective. Both events were part of an emerging costume-play movement that has its roots in reenactment and character cosplay, but which has exploded into a panoply of costume genres, periods, and styles performed globally in off-beat public places. Hosting the evening was the beautiful and exotic Shien Lee, the young Taiwanese impresario who creates the Dances of Vice events, each themed after different historical moments and cultures, all redolent with a romantic sense of the demimonde. It was a jewel box opening to reveal a satin-lined theatrical display of color, Out of the Closet: The Fancy Phenomenon