Power play
![jun09powerball_lg All photos by Sarah Nicole Prickett](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/jun09powerball_lg.jpg)
This past Thursday, FASHION went Powerballin’ at the Power Plant’s 11th annual “original contemporary art party,” the Power Ball. Co-chaired by Cleophee Eaton, Michael Cooper and Queen West gallery guy Clint Roenisch, the trailer-trash bash was as much about raising hell as raising funds. Design duo du jour Castor hauled in their high-kitsch Winnebago and–what swine flu?–a real, live-looking pig roast. Next door, art (and bar) star Dean Baldwin slung vodka and Kool-Aid to the likes of Drake Hotel-ier Jeff Stober. In the “video outhouse,” scandalous “private parties” became less so, as they were broadcast to the big screen inside; other projections included “Mad Max” and a “Conceptual Art soft porn peep show.” Speaking of which, avant-garde skin-flick director Bruce LaBruce was there, palling around with artist Agathe Snow and DJ Rory Them Finest. Playing to the party’s “One Louder” credo, local folk-rock heroes $100 had the Toronto Roller Derby crew two-stepping with so-called “socials” and the designers they love, like Nada Shepherd and necklace artisan Maryam Keyhani. See these and more of the night’s big moments and best dressed below.
![jun09powerball1 A Lovely doing her best Gucci boho Russe impression.](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/a-lovely-thing-doing-her-version-of-gucci-russe-boho-408x545.jpg)
![bruce-la-bruce-dj-rory-them-finest Bruce LaBruce (left) and DJ Rory Them Finest](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bruce-la-bruce-dj-rory-them-finest-545x408.jpg)
![jun09powerball3 Butt out. (I think this was art.)](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/butt-out-i-think-this-was-art-545x408.jpg)
![jun09powerball4 jun09powerball4](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/im-sure-this-gilded-lady-is-somebody-but-i-forgot-to-care-nice-millinery-though-545x408.jpg)
![jun09powerball4 Jen McNeely, president of Shedoesthecity.com](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jen-mcneely-from-shedoesthecitycom-545x408.jpg)
![jun09powerball5 Jewellery designer Maryam Keyhani wearing one of her own creations.](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/maryam-in-her-own-design-of-course-545x408.jpg)
![jun09powerball12 jun09powerball12](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cute-niece-aunt-combo-my-friend-nadine-lekich-dont-know-her-aunts-name-408x545.jpg)
![jun09powerball7 Designer Nada Shepherd](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nada-shepherd-408x545.jpg)
![jun09powerball8 One of the cats from Toronto Roller Derby.](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/one-of-the-roller-derby-cats-also-art-545x408.jpg)
![jun09powerball9 jun09powerball9](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/powerplant-workers-408x545.jpg)
![jun09powerball10 Studio Gallery director Vanessa Gronowski](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/studio-gallerys-vanessa-gronowski-545x408.jpg)
![jun09powerball11 jun09powerball11](http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/two-stepping-to-100-408x545.jpg)
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