Kith’s first fashion show since 2019 was scheduled to take place outside, in front of its first-ever flagship store on Lafayette street at 6:30pm. At precisely that same time one of those fantastical flash summer thunderstorms descended upon the city. When the show eventually got underway 45 minutes later, after Kith-branded clear umbrellas had been handed out, the rain had stopped, and Carmelo Anthony had taken his front-row seat it was obvious the mood in the crowd had not dulled. And as the first models stepped on the astro-turf runway repping the various New York teams which Kith is involved with—the Knicks, the Yankees, the Giants—it occurred to me that the rain was actually somehow perfect: this is what summers in New York City are like.

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