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“I wear some pretty serious shoulder pads,” crowed Keri Russell at the season five premiere of her FX drama The Americans. “I mean, very serious shoulder pads!” The series, which is set in the early 1980s, features Russell and Matthew Rhys posing as two Soviet KGB officer happily living in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. The former Felicity actress is also slightly in awe of another aspect of the period clothing—cinched waists. “We don’t wear anything on our waists anymore,” she said. “Everything’s like lazy. It’s hard to eat five tacos at lunch and put those pants back on. A lot of times I can’t. “Russell’s on-screen (and off-screen) partner Rhys also expressed a kind of bemused horror with the era’s fashion. “High-waisted jeans,” he exclaimed. “You go, ‘Why can’t I wear this after my lunch?’ And you realize why. We’ve been very subtle in the use of shoulder pads, but even still you think, ‘What were they thinking?’ It was madness, a decade of madness, so thank goodness it’s over.” On a more serious note, show creator Joseph Weisberg admits that the show’s parallels to President Trump’s embroilment with Russian authorities, along with rumors of election tampering, have been surreal to say the least. “It’s very disconcerting,” he admitted. “It was not our plan at all.” After a screening, the cast including Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, and Noah Emmerich partied at the Plaza Hotel alongside Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough from MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

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“We were all very drunk,” Matthew Rhys said. “And we were like, ‘Yes, yes, of course!’”

“He said there’d be free booze at the party — that’s the only part I remember.”

Matthew Rhys, the Welsh actor currently starring on FX’s “The Americans,” was recounting how he and partner (and costar) Keri Russell came to be featured in Rag & Bone’s fall portrait collection Thursday night — the details of which are, apparently, a tad fuzzy.

Rhys and Russell circled through the gallery space on Tenth Avenue, bottles of Peroni in hand, alongside a press-apprehensive Thom Yorke (who doubled as a DJ for the party), Haley Bennett, Amber Valletta, Joan Smalls, Dylan Penn and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

“Marcus is our neighbor, and our kids go to school together,” Russell said, standing near her portrait. “[We knew him] literally just from the kids at school, from bleary-eyed, unbrushed teeth drop-offs with kids at school. And then someone was like, ‘Oh no, he’s [the Rag & Bone designer].’

“We were are a birthday party and he said, ‘Do you want to do this thing?’” Russell continued. “We were all very drunk,” Rhys clarified. “And we were like, ‘Yes, yes, of course!’”

The two appeared like naturals in their respective portraits — though the Rag & Bone collaboration didn’t stir up any modeling inclinations. “Oh, I signed with Models 1 — was it Models 1? Yes, I’ve got a campaign,” Rhys said dryly. “You’re going to be doing women’s lingerie,” Russell joked, before adding, in sincerity, “No, everyone at the shoot was, like, way cooler than we were.”

Nearby was Emma Sulkowicz, who rose to Internet prominence during her time at Columbia University for her sexual assault awareness performance art piece “Carry That Weight.”

“They told me they were taking pictures of women they admired? It seems like that’s not the theme anymore,” said Sulkowicz with a laugh of her portrait, which was taken the day prior. “And I don’t actually really know what this is — but it was really fun!”

Despite not knowing exactly what the party entailed, the Columbia grad — now a student in the Whitney Museum’s independent study program — was nonetheless enjoying the experience. “It was my first time ever getting photographed, in this kind of situation,” she said. “I’ve never had anyone fuss over my makeup before — on a very fundamental level I think it feels nice. I’ve never experienced anything like it.”

Rag & Bone aren’t the only ones to reach out to the recent grad. “I got asked to be in this Elle hair thing — they’re doing a thing on people with hair that they like,” she said. “But then they ended up not wanting me anymore. It was very mysterious, they e-mailed my studio e-mail…”

Just past 9:30 p.m., as the party had moved to a neighboring room boasting whiskey and Tacombi tacos, the crowd parted for dancing. Recently exited Elle fashion news director Anne Slowey and the dancer and model known as Lil Buck took to the clearing for a round of Jookin, a dance popularized — at least with this crowd — by Lil Buck. Fashion week: full of surprises.

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