(NEW YORK) One could hear the thunderous applause straight through the rafters Thursday night when Rufus Wainwright took the stage at Carnegie Hall to perform all 26 songs from Judy Garland's 1961 Judy at Carnegie Hall live album. "Over the rainbow, under the rainbow, tonight we're in the rainbow!" he declared to the packed audience of nearly 3,000, including Anne Slowey, Robert Wilson, Robert Duffy, Hal Rubenstein, Stephen Gan, James Kaliardos, Joe Zee, Cecilia Dean, Chloë Sevigny, Marc Jacobs, who was said to have watched from the balcony above, Michael Kors, who dashed into his front row seat just as the orchestra started playing, and Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren of Viktor & Rolf, who designed Wainwright's on-stage costumes. "We went to see a concert of his in Amsterdam, and my God, he's like Mozart," Horsting remarked.

 

As for the outfits, one, a pale blue suit with loose fitting pants with satin piping paired with a sequin-starred ruffled white shirt, and the other, a three-piece tuxedo, complete with top hat, accessorized with a flower dipped in liquid silver and worn with a raised waffle-print shirt, "It's linked to our next spring/summer collection," Horsting continued. "It's a mix of classical elements and those that are more 40s and 50s. The stars print shirt is like he's reaching for the stars, in the same way we do." Wainwright may have had access to couture Viktor & Rolf, but he wasn't the only one donning the fashion-forward label. His mother, Kate McGarrigle, and sister, Martha Wainwright, both of whom performed duets with the man of the night, also wore Viktor & Rolf's ethereal designs.

 

"It was mellow for a concert," Jack McCollough later offered at the post-show after party upstairs, which marked the debut of Antidote, the new fragrance for men by Viktor & Rolf-and, as some joked, the first fragrance with its own soundtrack. Wainwright, still breathless from his performance from earlier in the night, happily posed for photos and took congratulatory kisses left and