Per Usual Everyone Went All Out at the Top of the Standard’s Annual Halloween Blowout 

With bales of hay stacked high, tumbleweeds hanging from the light fixtures, and its entrance reimagined with a set of swinging saloon doors, the Boom Boom Room was all dressed up (as a southern belle) on Saturday night in honor of Halloween.

“This is our 10th year throwing this party, and we always put in a lot of effort to make sure Halloween is celebrated correctly every year,” the Standard Hotels’s Corey Tuttle, de facto architect of this year’s theme, told Vogue. “We have to have a strong theme and a performance to keep people on their toes, and this year is no different.” Tuttle himself came along with six friends dressed as the pageant contestants in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

And as fate often has it, even for those not dressed in their Western finery, all roads led to the Standard. Cowboys and beauty queens mixed seamlessly with those who had come from other nearby fêtes, including Selby Drummond’s Fleur Room bash and Allison Sarofim’s famed annual house party, which this year called for ensembles to be crafted in the style of Leigh Bowery and his fellow club kids. Haider Ackermann was a dead ringer for Bowery in a fully painted face; Brian Atwood opted for silver, light-up wings; and Ellen von Unwerth snapped photos dressed as a bedazzled harlequin.

Entertainment for the evening was left to crooner Mya, whose timeless hits, like “Ghetto Superstar” and “Lady Marmalade,” had partygoers climbings atop the bar to get a better look. “It felt good to play the classics, especially with all of my dancers around me keeping it all up-tempo,” she explained as we ducked to chat below a thumping speaker. “This is one of the best Halloween parties in New York City, and this is what I expect when I come to New York, which is just over-the-top, above and beyond.”