Tory Burch staging her Fall 2025 fashion show, an ode to "twisted American sportswear," at New York City's Museum of Modern Art felt like "serendipity" to Saturday Night Live star Chloe Fineman. Explicitly, she tells me after just after the show, because Fineman's mother, Ellen Gunn, scored an extra invite, and she's one of many painters in the family. Sitting across the runway from one another in coordinating black Tory pumps after an afternoon of primping with hairstylist Takuya Yamaguchi and makeup artist Marc Reagan at The Fifth Avenue Hotel was a "delight"—the kind you can only share when you're also on first-name basis with one of the New York Fashion Week calendar's most beloved designers.
But the expansive collection's debut on a night at the museum came with another accidental source of joy. The MoMA is also a few short blocks away from Rockefeller Center, where Fineman spends most weeks writing, rehearsing, and performing on SNL. Taking in the runway while wearing a Spring/Summer 2025 look styled by Yael Quint, Fineman saw pieces she could wear to Studio 8H when they finally hit the market this fall.
