“What did you get up to last night?” he asked her. Leatherdale, sober, tidy and decidedly not hard core despite his leather uniform, was mock-annoyed one morning when he awoke to find an English muffin speared to the kitchen table with one of Ms. Summers with her work by offering her a pair of leather pants, a rubber garter belt and S&M tips. Summers was a dominatrix working under the name Mistress Juliette one of her clients cleaned the place free of charge. The Grand Street loft was an unusual household. Summers shared a loft on Grand Street, where Mr. Leatherdale had already traveled through India and Afghanistan in a van and been to art school in San Francisco before he landed in New York City in 1978, moving into the Wild West of the Lower East Side. Susanne Bartsch, the nightlife impressaria, was a towering presence in red leather. Andy Warhol was a Hamlet in a black turtleneck.
The performance artist Leigh Bowery was majestic in a tinseled mask, a corset and a merkin. He photographed a not-yet-famous club kid named Madonna in her ripped jeans and his denim vest. Leatherdale was the Cecil Beaton of Downtown Manhattan. Summers said, adding that he had also been mourning the death of his mother and the couple’s dog in the last year. Leatherdale suffered a stroke soon after, Ms. His partner of two decades, Jorge Serio, died in July, and Mr. The cause was suicide, said Claudia Summers, his former wife. Marcus Leatherdale, who made classical portraits of Manhattan’s demimonde in the 1980s - Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Sydney Biddle Barrows, otherwise known as the Mayflower Madam, all made their way to his Lower East Side studio - died on April 22 at his home in the state of Jharkhand, India.
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