Black Lace Just Took Down Sexy Body With Satin Chemise

There was a community being built. Not like how it is now—it’s so fragmented there. Then it was—another store came, they were welcome, another store came, found its niche. The I-Beam was the best club in town. As I like to say—the Haight wasn’t happening, the Haight was it.Only half of the store fronts were open in ’79, and half of those were owned by gay men, and they said, "we’re not going to let this become a gay ghetto.

We don’t want to make this the next gay street." So they didn’My partner sold the building and I had to leave. So I found a nice, big building in the Fillmore. That’s where rock stars came in, movie stars came in.Catherine Deneuve. I met Graham Nash, who’s the greatest guy. I met Tom Petty in the store, and that’s when I realized rock stars shouldn’t be seen in the daytime.

Bill Graham put everybody up at the Miyako Hotel, so all those guys stayed there and wandered in. Missy Elliot came in, Beck came in and bought stuff for a video he made in San Francisco. Daryl Hannah came in, and that was interesting—she bought a swimsuit. Nothing like Daryl Hannah popping out of your dressing room! And I guess Kate Moss bought a swimsuit from me too, but I wasn’t there that day.

Spig: Finally the nouveau swing movement began, and by the late 80s, it had really become a movement. Those of us who’d been wearing vintage clothes had just been wearing vintage clothes, but all of a sudden, people got interested in the music, so people wanted to wear the satin chemise.That’s why people could make it on Haight Street, because it was sort of a new movement.