The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Take Valentino Beauty’s revival of Studio 54 , opened in the famed club’s original space only for Wednesday night. Cigarettes? The 2025 iterations were made of candy (though that didn’t stop a few attendees from lighting up indoors later in the evening). White horse? Not this time. Frenzied crowd outside the door? In full force. Diana Ross and Donna Summer? Blaring. Cher ? Absolutely.

By the time Cher came in — with her beau on her arm and full team in tow — the dancing and drinking were well underway. The one to start the action on the dance floor first was Colman Domingo, who also drew out a few fellow partygoers.

Heavy on nostalgia, attendees reminisced on their own fantasies of the bygone club. “I think of Brooke Shields dan

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