Haring Haunted House

“You can feel the ghosts,” Nicolas Ghesquière said of the Frick, which the House of Louis Vuitton rented and closed down for several days for the livestreamed presentation of the 2027 Cruise Collection. “Not just the art, but the furniture, the objects, the lifestyle.” But also the art. And the objects. Anachronistic holdovers for selling warm weather clothes to global northerners escaping winter, cruise collections now fill brand content gaps in the fashion industry’s seasonally oriented calendar. As Ghesquière explained on a Vogue podcast that somehow lasted an hour, cruise collections get dropped into a fancy locale and have a stronger narrative. In this case, that was robber baron-era Upper East Side and licensed merchandise. Ghesquière’s inspiration [sic] was a 90-yo Vuitton leather suitcase “embellished” with two Keith Haring figures and a date, 1984, which The House bought at Bonham’s Los Angeles in May 2020. The suitcase came from Dominick Bonanno Batty, who Bonhams described…