Everyone from Megan Thee Stallion to Eric Adams to a who’s who of the art world flocked to the Balenciaga last Sunday. 'Everyone agrees this is great for the brand,' one NYSE director said to another.
standing beside him with his husband,CeCethe head of fashion at TikTok, as Defrancesco held aloft a gold money-shooting gun and spewed the counterfeit bills Balenciaga gave to each guest in a plume in the air while dipping into a full-body twerk.Stock exchange employees led guests into a waiting room and then through a disorienting series of anterooms—until, with a shock, there it was, the trading pit.
Like every runway show, it was all over in about 10 minutes. Afterward, in a mask of his own design, Demna came out to say a quick hello. “I always go back to Chinese restaurants, right?” he said, gesturing around to the dim sum parlor. “I found this place and I thought it was perfect, but I guess it was already done as a place, right?”
“I guess everything in New York is already done, right?” said the man who just staged a spectacle of a fashion show in the New York Stock Exchange for the first time in history. “So let’s go to the dance floor.”Inigo Philbrick