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From The Wall Street Journal: Heard & Scene: Extreme Dress Is Mandatory

“Who knew there was a feather district in New York?” exclaimed partygoer Elsi Pacheco, who on Saturday night in the Hamptons was wearing an elaborate, corseted peacock costume she made herself. “It was three days of nonstop sewing and hot glue-gunning,” said Ms. Pacheco, elaborating that the feather district is clustered around West 38th Street. Ms. Pacheco, 29 years old, wasn’t the only peacock at the party, which had a mandatory dress code: “Bizarre Animals and Exotic Creatures.” The event was thrown by Sir Ivan, aka Ivan L. Wilzig, the 56-year-old ex-banking executive and current electropop musician, to celebrate his newest self-released single, “La La Land…”

Read the article here at The Wall Street Journal.