The exhibition seeks to foreground Aghion at the brand, repositioning Chloé as a historically important fashion name and giving the museum a pop culture edge. Do you think this is a teachable moment about cultural preconceptions, an effort by the museum to reach a new audience, or both? The Jewish Museum has mounted art-historically important exhibitions, though as you say, infrequently about fashion (their first was a buoyant Isaac Mizrahi survey in 2016). It’s rare for one show to focus on a single ready-to-wear brand such as Chloé. Yet that’s what the Jewish Museum is doing, and it suggests that brand has something very important to say.

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Persons: Vanessa Friedman, Max Lakin, VANESSA FRIEDMAN Fashion, Isaac Mizrahi, Aghion, — sidelong, “ Ralph Lauren ”, Ralph Lifshitz, FRIEDMAN, Gaby Aghion Organizations: The New York Times, Met, Brooklyn Museum, Fashion Institute of Technology, Jewish Locations: New York, Jewish