Between 1989 and 1993, Ernie Glam made party clothes for Michael Alig, the New York City nightclub promoter who became known for his outlandish parties, and then for the grisly death of a friend in 1996. Dressing the Monster is a fashion memoir about the garments, parties and ideas behind Glam's and Alig's collaboration to promote and define the club kids, a group of New York City party people whose antics became widely publicized in the early 1990s.