The plastic is definitively closes, the beating heart of the Milanese nights. “An era ended,” so the Dj Stryxia reminds him

The plastic lightshistoric Milanese night club, They went out: the announcement of the final closure came through the club channels of the club in the early hours of September 4, after the last evening of June 28, 2025who put an end to an era that made the vibrate vibrate Milanese nightlife for over forty years.

Those who attended it knows: the plastic was not simply a meeting place or disco. It was the beating heart of the Alternative and Inclusive Club Culturea laboratory where the dance floor became stage, a crossroads of artists, musicians, designers, creatives and people of all ages and orientation in search of freedom. To talk about it is Graziano Zani, aka Stryxia, DJ “en Trassesti” who animated the club evenings for 26 years.

The plastic: “An unrepeatable experience, the atmosphere that you breathed will be missing”

“The unrepeatable atmosphere of the plastic had a allure that will inevitably end up with him”says Graziano Zani, a historic DJ of the Plastic (“It was home for me”). Who confirms what in these hours we read a little everywhere: the plastic, inaugurated in December 1980 In Viale Umbria 120, «It was not just a club. He was a living organism, animated by a unique mix of people and stories. His figure? It was a place open to all, gathered people over 70 and very youngincluding Characters of the caliber of Madonna and Freddie Mercury, who, however, deliberately confused with the crowd. No VIP treatment, “says Stryxia. “Of course, it has always been a gay friendly club, but He had no sexual definitions, he was a heterogeneous, free place». Here, the labels ceased to exist. “The VIP? You never knew who you faced “explains the DJ, returning the idea of ​​a place where anonymity was wanted. «The plastic in this sense was unique. To say, One evening I danced next to Björk as if he were a friendI didn’t even recognize it, then someone told me who it was and I almost didn’t believe it ». The news of the closure, confirmed on the club’s social channels, has confirmed the decline of the night lifean evident phenomenon in all of Europe, London in the lead. “I wasn’t one of the owners, but The end of the plastic does not completely surprise me: in recent years the turnout had dropped. The same happened in many clubs, not only in Milan. The truth is that young people today live on social media, they almost no longer go to dance». Of his, Stryxia does not intend to retire. “I am an artist and I don’t know the word pension. I have not planned anything, I will continue my DJ-sets with Armani, parties at the restaurant. I ask myself on what to do, Of course the end of the plastic leaves a void. Few think about it, but also Going to dance is culture».