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For her annual Halloween bash, Allison Sarofim brought the eighties downtown scene into her West Village townhouse Friday, walling in her backyard patio with graffiti-scrawled plywood and pumping it full of New Wave dance tunes. There were squadrons of break-dancers, punked-out bartenders, and cigarette girls on hand; the hostess channeled a club-going character named Nefertiti Graffiti in a pharaonic hairpiece by stylist Ashley Javier; and, yes, that was an actual Basquiat on the living room mantelpiece. The guests did the rest: Carlos Mota came as Leigh Bowery and Chris Benz as Adam Ant, sporting a pirate shirt and dangling extensions that, he predicted, "I'll be pulling out at the gym tomorrow." And was that really Fabiola Beracasa weari...(read more)