Are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders the muses of the moment?

This I was wondering while sitting deep in the bowels of New York on an unused J/Z station on Kenmare Street, watching Tom Ford’s version of simplicity go by. Industry-watchers spent a lot of time speculating in the run-up to this fashion week about what form the industry’s politicization and opposition to the current administration would take, but perhaps it’s not so much President Trump who has had a trickle-down effect on the designer mind, but his competition.

I mean, there was Mr. Ford trading the Park Avenue Armory , his usual venue, for the Lower East Side; his preshow quaff of Champagne for Sapporo beer; there he was making … jeans.