Tribute to Plastic Milan without Plastic would lose its identity

The club, which has troubled and animated Milanese nights for almost forty years, lost its founder Lucio Nisi last November.

Nisi was from Puglia and went up to Milan in the early '60s. He had a fruit and vegetable shop at the Ortomercato in San Siro, but together with his brother and Nicola Guiducci (well-known Milanese DJ) he opened a club in the early '80s, a kind of Studio 54 close to the Madonnina. It was 1980, golden years for pop music, voguing and the beginning of the struggles of gay rights. Milan was a city in constant fervor, a young Berlusconi took hold in Mediaset, the myth of Heather Parisi was pressing and Lorella Cuccarini formed the young creatives. Originally it was a narrow space, obtained from a former warehouse that overlooked Viale Umbria, a very old one-story building, which it demolished if it had not been for Nisi, but who skillfully knew how to deconstruct it and stitch it up like a shoulder strap in a blazer in the late 70s.

Years go by, but Plastic remains and the place is sedimented by the experience and vivid memory of the city, still remaining a clear reference point for Milan.