From the personal collection of Maripol, this rare surviving invitation to Fiorucci’s 15th Anniversary Fashion Input Party captures a pivotal moment in the collision of fashion, music, and downtown New York subculture.

Held on May 19, 1983, at the legendary Studio 54, the event marked 15 years of Elio Fiorucci’s visionary influence on global style. Just months before the release of her debut album, a then-underground Madonna was enlisted to perform her early demos like Everybody and Burning Up, sharing the stage with Man Parrish and Project Nebulon featuring Joey Arias. Maripol, Fiorucci’s creative director at the time, played a crucial role in curating the party and shaping Madonna’s early visual identity: styling her in the now-iconic layered “Maripolitan” look of rubber bracelets, crucifixes, and chains that would soon define a decade.

The invitation itself is as bold and irreverent as the scene it represents, featuring a fuchsia nude-line drawing on the reverse and echoing the audacious spirit of 1980s New York. More than an artifact, it is a firsthand piece of pop cultural genesis.

7 x 10 inches (17.8  x 25.4 cm)