John Heller, Post-Gazette Flower girl Shana Moulton, left, is pollinated by Takehito Etani as Fereshteh Toosi watches. Click photo for larger image.

"Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed" was the title of the exhibit, but the same could be said for the guests who flocked in several waves to The Andy Warhol Museum Saturday night. The people watching doesn't get any better around here, and by the end of the night quite a few were transformed by some serious partying into ... oh, behave! The party was a blast, of course, with more than 800 of every size, shape and persuasion dressed to impress, dancing with naked ladies, drinking flavored vodkas and listening to -- was that music?

That The Garden of Earthly Delights Party also kicked off the 10th anniversary of The Warhol made it extra-special, as did the exquisite show that was the center of the evening. The party built to a crescendo, with lines waiting well past midnight to get into the after-party next door at the Alcoa Business Center. As lovely Christina French pointed out, there isn't much for a 28-year-old to do in Pittsburgh. But it all began with a quiet private dinner for board members and donors who gathered in the Elvis room. They were greeted by Warhol executive director Tom Sokolowski, board chair Lea Simonds, the exhibit's curator, John Smith, and party chair Teekie Smith (who started the evening looking like Jackie O and ended it disguised as Pam Grier).

The bulk of the guests came for cocktails beginning at 8 and filled the museum from top to bottom. Models wearing G-strings and body paint mingled with flower people, girls with fab hair-dos, fashions from Luxx and an even more interesting array of guests. Rachel Farley could have passed for an Italian movie star in her gorgeous Chloe dress. Richard Parsakian wore black fishnet, while Catherine Loevner modeled a Marilyn skirt. Jeweler Justin Giunta had an enormous class ring dangling from his neck, Graham Shearing stood out in stripes, and board member Damian Soffer brought along his handsome son Jasper, who lives in London and caught quite a few eyes.

The favorite spot seemed to be inside Virgil Marti's welcoming mylar installation with its magnificent chandeliers, though the botanicals on loan from the Hunt Library were pretty spectacular. Live flower art from Toadflax, Hepatica and Tim Condron Florist accented each entrance, and then the trek next door took the crowd to new depths in the cavernous space decorated by John Van Der Grift to look Factory-esque. DJ Neil Aline pumped up the volume and the dancing commenced.

Who wasn't there? But among the throngs were petal pushers like Carnegie Institute chair Suzy Broadhurst, Richard Florida, Barbara Mistick with daughter Tori, Pam Golden, Barbara Luderowski, JoAn Bates, Tod Hunt, Don and Bea Carter, Henry Simonds and Karen Shakoske, Molly and Peter Blasier, state Rep. Dan Frankel with Debbie, Ellen and Jay Brooks, the Frick's Bill Bodine, Lou Castelli, Scott Bergstein and Jessica Koup, Andy and Abby Sheehan, Bill Chisnell, Alex Speyer, Jessica O'Brien, David Kozloff and Mark Meaders, Stacy Weiss and Will Carpenter, Steve Mendelson, Marguerite and Marty Marks and Warhol's brother John Warhola.