For those whose blood sugar relies on of fashion freaks and trannies, the release party for Amanda Lepore’s new music video,“Cotton Candy,” was pure hyperglycemia. Sunday night at Hiro, the “World’s Most Famous Transexual” was surrounded by a raging club scene (led by DJ Honey Dijon), coiffed New York underground dignitaries and over-the-top crazy people—so what else is new?
“My name is Sofia Lamar,” screamed Tobell Von Cartier, the easily identified Larry Tee acolyte in an Amanda-inspired bob and shiny cocktail dress. Somehow I pushed through the groupies to the real deal, the scent of Lepore’s new perfume, “Amanda,” wafting over me. She was eager to let me smell her clavicle; the scent is sweet and astringent like a bubble bath of rubbing alcohol.
“My summer look is Mars Attacks,” she informed me, her head buckling under a twofoot blond beehive, framed by blood-red lipstick and a silver cocktail dress.
Everyone shut up when Lepore’s video began. It featured the star in montages of 1950s European film ads singing the chorus “I love that you don’t care what people think about me.” She followed up with a live show, singing her original “My Hair Looks Fierce” and stripping down to a high-waisted silver thong, corset and pasties. That was followed by a rendition of “Happy Birthday” for a grinning Lance Bass.
As the night drew to a close, some clueless revelers must have questioned the authenticity of Lepore’s updo (a foolish move, considering we know how authentic her other parts are); and as I slipped into the night, I heard her scream, “It’s all my hair!” And it looked fierce.
