Erika's clothes were carried in several New York boutiques, such as the legendary Fiorucci, and appeared in Vogue, New Yorker, and Elle magazines.
Fiorucci |
In 1980, Bertoglio and Maripol secured backing from Rizzoli, through Fiorucci, to produce a film (with rock critic Glenn O'Brien) about the No Wave music scene and the general Lower East Side milieu.
The Australian Crawl song "Hoochie Coochie Fiorucci Mama" was written about Portsea.
Many extraordinary artists have exhibited in the two SACI Galleries, from fashion designer Elio Fiorucci to Proust Armchair creator Alessandro Mendini, from Audrey Flack to Beverly Pepper.