If you weren't in our neon jungle on Saturday night, you missed out.

It&#39;s hard to believe (just)&nbsp;three years have gone by since The Blond opened its SoHo doors to New York&#39;s coolest partygoers. Alongside its boutique hotel home of 11 Howard, the Aby Rosen&nbsp;nightclub has been&nbsp;a veritable center for private events, chic cocktails, and a vibrant dance scene ever since its opening in spring 2016. With celebrity-hosted parties occurring more often than not, The Blond&#39;s short existence has been a smashing cultural success, so L&#39;Officiel USA hosted a party over the weekend to celebrate its third anniversary and look forward to&nbsp;all the wild nights to come.

The party was a&nbsp;&quot;Primal Affair,&quot; a theme that called for a colorful reimagination of The Blond&#39;s&nbsp;elevated space. Guests arrived wearing neon, animal print, and classic all-black looks to find groundbreaking arrangements of fresh(ly painted)&nbsp;flowers glowing under the black light as dancers posed on pedestals, wearing green leopard body paint from head to toe. The bar featured&nbsp;a special cocktail menu by Belvedere, Volcan, and Veuve Clicquot, so attendees could embrace their wild sides with the help of the Fantastic Beast, Leopard Print, or&nbsp;a&nbsp;sophisticated version of Jungle Juice. An appropriately neon artwork by Vernon O&#39;Meally&nbsp;was up for silent auction and partygoers alternated between receiving glowing face-paint makeovers and dancing to a combination of current hits and lively throwbacks. Lil Nas X&#39;s breakout hit &quot;Old Town Road&quot; energized the crowd, but so did songs from ABBA and Earth, Wind&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Fire, bringing old and new tastes together for a f&ecirc;te&nbsp;that celebrated timeless New York nightlife as much as it did its contemporary venue.

Mathilde Ollivier, Makenna Cart, Benjamin Chabanon, Sean Ford

Our primal affair attracted a lively mix of models and influencers. Connie Fleming, who recently featured in <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/digital-issues/letter-from-the-editor-we-love-ny-april-2019">our digital-issue tribute to New York</a>, attended, as did model-slash-<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/fukushima-daises-cell-debut-2019">musician</a> Miles Garber and social media star Parker Kit Hill,&nbsp;whose entertaining date advice once featured on our Instagram stories. Also in the wildly neon crowd were artist Chloe Wise, who recently illustrated <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/chloe-wise-illustrates-jacquemus-spring-2019-campaign">Jacquemus&#39; Spring 2019 campaign</a>, multihyphenate fashion favorite <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/marina-testino-one-dress-to-impress">Marina Testino</a>, and models including Frida Aasen, Jessica Hart, and Vanessa Moody. And while the night was undeniably an elite celebration as guests enjoyed a jungle within the concrete jungle, all that partying was for a good cause, as the event benefited Brooklyn animal shelter Rescue City.

It&#39;s been quite the month for a L&#39;Officiel USA party, as Saturday&#39;s The Blond affair followed <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/save-the-date/the-last-day-caochella-2019">our serene Coachella celebration</a>&nbsp;from two weeks ago. After returning&nbsp;home from the desert, it was the perfect time for us to toast&nbsp;one of New York&#39;s chicest modern clubs with an evening as fluorescent as the venue&#39;s future. While last year&#39;s summer of scam, full of stories surrounding the likes of former 11 Howard resident-cum-grifter Anna Delvey, may be long over (coincidentally, Delvey&#39;s grand larceny conviction happened&nbsp;just days ago), our event on Saturday proved that NYC energy is warming&nbsp;up alongside the weather for a vibrant few months ahead.

See photos of our primal affair and its fluorescent crowd below.

Marina Testino

Justin Halley

Juana Burga

Michelle Song

Body-painted performer

Neon Belvedere and Volcan bottles

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Artwork by Vernon O'Meally

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Body-painted performers

Chloe Wise

Tanner Reese

Neon artwork was all over the primal affair.

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Marina Testino and Juana Burga

Groundbreaking florals

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Neon flowers

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