Dianne Brill, the “Queen of the Night”, Looks Back at Her Life in Parties

Dianne Brill, the “Queen of the Night”, Looks Back at Her Life in Parties

Growing up in Tampa, Florida, with David Bowie posters on her wall, Dianne Brill sensed she didn’t quite fit in. Around 1980, she discovered a store with a basement full of never-worn clothing from the 1940s. She bought it all, then lugged the “body bags’ ” worth of vintage to New York City to sell at Patricia Field’s Lower East Side boutique and at Trash & Vaudeville. “I sat there with empty bags and a handful of cash, and I thought, I guess I’…