Saturday · December 12 · 2026
Nothing was more glamorous from 1986 than Maria!With love — your people
Studio 54 locked its doors for the last time in 1986 — the same year Maria arrived, and the glamour has had somewhere to live ever since. She has carried it for forty years. One night at MarIA79, seven until two: dinner, dancing, and the kind of photographs you keep or in some cases hide to replace yours from 1986!
The particulars
Coming in from out of town
The venue sits in MiMo — the stretch of Biscayne Boulevard where Miami kept its 1950s motel architecture instead of knocking it down. It is the right neighbourhood for this party, and you can stay in the middle of it.
7301 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33138
About a mile and a half from the venue — five minutes by car.
A restored 1953 MiMo motor lodge with the original neon back up, a courtyard pool and a bar worth arriving early for. It is the closest thing in Miami to sleeping inside the theme.
Give the code when you book. If the booking page has nowhere to put it, call the hotel and mention it then — and tell JC, so he can chase it.
MiMo Biscayne Boulevard Historic District
NE 50th to NE 77th Street
The same stretch has several small hotels and a run of short-let apartments, all within a few minutes of the door. Anything between 50th and 79th puts you close enough to walk home from the afterparty, or at least to tell yourself you could.
South Beach is a twenty-minute drive and a different evening entirely — fine if you want the beach, further than you'll want to be at two in the morning.
Dress code
Think the 1980s at Studio 54 rather than a themed party — the room should look expensive, not ironic. Dress like you are being photographed, because you will be.
If you're deciding between two outfits, wear the one that catches the light.
Pictures, not a shopping list
Two pages of pictures, nothing to buy. They show the register — the shoulder, the shine, the open collar — so you can find the closest thing you already own. If you are deciding between two outfits, wear the one that catches the light.
Répondez
Please reply by Saturday, November 28 so we can give the venue a final count. While you're here, leave a favorite memory of Maria — the good ones go up on this page before the party.
December 12th, 7PM, MarIA79. Wear something that catches the light.
The memory wall
What her people wrote in when they RSVP'd — and what plays on the screen at the party. Add yours above.
The wall is still empty.
Be the first to put something on it — fill in the memory field in the RSVP form and it will appear here.