Held tops off our champagne glasses while Posey sifts through a rack of vintage Todd Oldham. Posey met Held on a shoot where he professed that Party Girl changed his life. Today Held has pulled a series of looks for Posey that seem like they could’ve been lifted from that film’s costume closet.
“This is all taking me back to the ‘90s,” Posey says, holding up a Roberto Cavalli jacket and launching into a spontaneous rendition of Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.” Held shows us a pair of sequined rhinestone shorts that he got directly from Oldham, who claim they might be the very same pair Posey wore in Party Girl. Held suggests it could be a fun choice for the re-relase premiere at IFC Center, but Posey opts for something more casual: the Cavalli jacket with a Moschino blouse and Vivienne Westwood skirt—all vintage. She’s more partial to winking at the past than trying to relive it. “We made Party Girl for people who saw New York as a place where they could reinvent themselves,” she says. “It means a lot to me that it seemed to resonate with some people.”
Raised by a chef mother and a father who owned a car dealership in Monroe, Louisiana, Posey displayed a performative streak early. She recalls one memorable summer at the Strong River Camp and Farm, where counselors assigned an 8-year-old Posey the job of putting on a show for the entire student body. “I wrote and directed a version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears where Little Red Riding Hood was a detective,” Posey recalls, citing the TV detective Kojak as her inspiration. In Posey’s version, Goldilocks walked onstage sucking on a Tootsie Pop and delivered Kojak’s famous one-liner: “Who loves ya, baby?” The adults, at least, loved the reference.
“My parents laughed so hard they cried, and that really upset me,” she laughs now. “All I remember thinking was, This isn’t funny, I’m supposed to be a detective. I’m Kojak, dammit.”
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