By
Danya Issawi,
a fashion news writer at The Cut.
She previously worked across the newsroom at the New York Times, including on the “Style” desk and the Pulitzer Prize-winning COVID-tracking team.
It was an hour or so before a torrential downpour in New York, one that left streets flooded and subway stations bursting with water. The weather outside was ominous: wet, muggy, and sticky. But inside the Frick museum, where the Louis Vuitton cruise show was being held, the air was cold, crisp, and kept at an exact temperature: 70 degrees. The Frick mansion, built in 1913 and former home to Henry Frick (also home to some rare Rembrandt and Vermeer paintings) was always intended to be a museum but, for the first time in its history, it was hosting a fashion show.
