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The Look Book Goes to the Brooklyn Mirage

At the season opening, ravers braved heavy winds and rain to dance under a new 200-foot-wide video screen.

Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland
Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland

Jean-Marc Chanoine
VP of sales, Hell’s Kitchen

Will you be here all night?
For six or seven hours. Good solid escape. But I’m a semi-adult. My wife is pregnant — I usually come to the Mirage with her — and I’m an executive at a tech company, so I have responsibilities and a regular old-fashioned day job.

Is this how you dress for work?
No. I’m not a founder. I can’t wear zebra-print robes and kilts around the World Trade Center all day. Though if I were, I would.

Robert Dowling

Public-relations executive, Soho

Nicole Kristin

Lawyer, Upper East Side


What brought you out?

It’s my birthday. I turned 35. Yesterday, my friends and I were all furiously texting one another: “Okay, the weather’s not changing, so we need to all go on Amazon right now and get one-day-delivery ponchos.”

Yumeily Oviedo

Student, Flatbush

Clay Hribar

Digital producer, South Williamsburg

Ashton Do

Social-media manager, Clinton Hill


What kind of people are here?

I’d love to see a more queer crowd. But people have walked up to me and said, “Sick look, man.” When the bros are walking up and saying you look sick, you’ve done some good in the world.

Scott Smith

Software engineer, Toronto

Julio Galvez

Music producer and DJ, Cinton Hill

Amnyris de Jesús

Model, Bushwick


Do you go out a lot?

I’ve been raving since I was 15 in Puerto Rico. I have a tattoo, “Carpe diem” — don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today. I was engaged during the pandemic, and he passed away. So I’ve been healing.

Ritchie Iwanski

Artist, Yorkville

Luis Rodriguez

Clinical reviewer, Philadelphia

Gregory Ospedales

Construction worker, Astoria

Juan Zapata

Dancer, Bushwick


What’s the plan tonight?

Well, we bought ’shrooms. We had them shipped from L.A., and someone had said, “You know, these are the best ’shrooms.” But nothing’s happening. That said, whoever planned the Martinez Brothers’ set meant we were fine. During the performance, a panel started moving and turning and twisting and projecting all these beautiful images. That was a game changer.

Diego Prieto

Tattoo artist, Bushwick

Joskairy Gonell

Pharmacy technician, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Kézié Walla

Finance director, Harlem

Sasha Charoensub

Photographer, Bedford-Stuyvesant

Keila Hernandez

Peer navigator, Crown Heights


Do you work in nightlife?

I do harm reduction with DanceSafe, so I go to festivals to test people’s drugs for them. Also if, let’s say, someone is delirious, instead of them going to EMS, sometimes they feel safer being with us. We watch over them.

Daniel Vasquez

Construction worker, Bushwick

Photographs by DeSean McClinton-Holland

Robert Dowling

Public-relations executive, Soho

Nicole Kristin

Lawyer, Upper East Side


What brought you out?

It’s my birthday. I turned 35. Yesterday, my friends and I were all furiously texting one another: “Okay, the weather’s not changing, so we need to all go on Amazon right now and get one-day-delivery ponchos.”

Yumeily Oviedo

Student, Flatbush

Clay Hribar

Digital producer, South Williamsburg

Ashton Do

Social-media manager, Clinton Hill


What kind of people are here?

I’d love to see a more queer crowd. But people have walked up to me and said, “Sick look, man.” When the bros are walking up and saying you look sick, you’ve done some good in the world.

Scott Smith

Software engineer, Toronto

Julio Galvez

Music producer and DJ, Cinton Hill

Amnyris de Jesús

Model, Bushwick


Do you go out a lot?

I’ve been raving since I was 15 in Puerto Rico. I have a tattoo, “Carpe diem” — don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today. I was engaged during the pandemic, and he passed away. So I’ve been healing.

Ritchie Iwanski

Artist, Yorkville

Luis Rodriguez

Clinical reviewer, Philadelphia

Gregory Ospedales

Construction worker, Astoria

Juan Zapata

Dancer, Bushwick


What’s the plan tonight?

Well, we bought ’shrooms. We had them shipped from L.A., and someone had said, “You know, these are the best ’shrooms.” But nothing’s happening. That said, whoever planned the Martinez Brothers’ set meant we were fine. During the performance, a panel started moving and turning and twisting and projecting all these beautiful images. That was a game changer.

Diego Prieto

Tattoo artist, Bushwick

Joskairy Gonell

Pharmacy technician, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Kézié Walla

Finance director, Harlem

Sasha Charoensub

Photographer, Bedford-Stuyvesant

Keila Hernandez

Peer navigator, Crown Heights


Do you work in nightlife?

I do harm reduction with DanceSafe, so I go to festivals to test people’s drugs for them. Also if, let’s say, someone is delirious, instead of them going to EMS, sometimes they feel safer being with us. We watch over them.

Daniel Vasquez

Construction worker, Bushwick

Photographs by DeSean McClinton-Holland

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