Friday, 12 April 2002 New York City, New York

Friday Michael Wilkinson is on board to do costumes. We meet with him and pour through tons of pictures and shared notes...we looked at Leigh Bowery pictures; there is no doubt that he was the original Club Kid and that Michael stole most of his ideas. The merkins (fancy word for pubic wigs), the blue dots on the face, the one piece outfits with the butt cut out - these were all Leigh Bowery originals.

Talk about the thorny problem of what Mac should wear when he goes to the outlaw party at the fast food restaurant in Times Square. In real life Michael Alig went naked, decorating his penis with sequins and feathers. His argument was that in the past one needed to protect ones genitals with codpieces and the like. Nice concept, but not one that Mac's peeps are willing to buy, understandably. So there will be NO frontal nudity. Someone has the bright idea for Mac to wear a prosthetic penis and we briefly debate the merits of a black or a white one. How long is too long? As if anyone has to ask. But then the idea is abandoned as a possible source of unwelcome headlines.
Leigh Bowery: the original