http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/fashion/london-fashion-week-marc-jacobs-love-magazine.html 2016-09-20 15:07:54 London Fashion Week Partygoers Tear Up Dance Floor (and Tear Down a Wall) Love magazine recreated 1989 Berlin, complete with border guards, at Loulou’s, a members-only club in Mayfair. === LONDON — “Where is your passport? I want your documentation now,” demanded a thickset uniformed soldier with a heavy German accent, sitting on a velvet pouf in a shadowy subterranean nightclub. On the left, a pack of scowling punks in leathers leaned against a graffitied concrete wall. To the right, hordes of beautiful women in glitter and shoulder pads lounged, sipping cups of Champagne. “Your passport, Fräulein,” the Stasi soldier said again. Getting into parties during fashion week is often tough, but this took the experience to new extremes. Presumably, that was the point, at least as envisioned by Love magazine editors and After navigating the crowds of paparazzi outside, guests descended a rickety staircase before being sent either east or west of a giant model “It’s just blowing my mind — this level of insanity is exactly what a fashion week should be,” said the young British designer Mr. Bovan was not the only one to have a parent as a party accessory. Anna Cleveland, the model daughter of the model superstar Pat Cleveland, had brought along her father, Paul van Ravenstein. Frances Bean Cobain spoke intensely with her mother, the singer Courtney Love (both wearing Marc Jacobs). Then the neon lights flashed and the music was replaced by scratchy recordings of speeches, culminating in the one in 1987 in which President Reagan demanded that Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the then-Soviet Union, “tear down this wall.” The 21st-century party gods heard, and down came the wall, opening up the dance floor. Cara Delevingne and Clara Paget, fresh from