It hasn't even been a full year since a woman was burned alive on a train in NYC, whether crime has increased or decreased overall, there has been an escalation in the violence of crime. There was a trend of young women on tiktok showing the baggy cover ups they wear over their outfits on the subway to avoid drawing attention - no sequined wilma flintstone dresses.
When nobody attending the show actually uses public transport, it's always going to be more reminiscent of Versailles hamlet peasant cosplay - surely this was Charlotte Casiraghi's first time going through the turnstile. The old sets had a charm to them and were like a parodic fantasy of a supermarket or airport. I don't know who this was supposed to resonate with; the guests looked like they wanted hand sanitiser, the french only like the new york of a cassavetes or scorsese film, and most of their american big spenders would rather cosplay eloise at the plaza. When the train first pulled in, I thought it was an operating public train that was just going to speed through without stopping and actual commuters would get to glimpse the show, which might have been more interesting.
Anyway, those crossover skirts were bad enough the first time, and the random assortment of novelty bags feels like the same confusing line up of guests, trying to appeal to everyone and pleasing no one.