Where Fashion Met Moonlight in Tribeca
- Editorial Team
- Apr 5
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 9
At One Art Space, the night didn’t ease in - it arrived with presence.
By the time Michael Fredo’s “The Moonlighters” opened for VIP press, the space was already alive: a packed house, shoulder to shoulder, the kind of crowd that hums before you even register why. Hosted by Tommy Hilfiger and Andy Hilfiger, and produced by Lawlor Media Group, the room carried a distinct charge: fashion, art, and downtown energy colliding all at once.
It felt immediate. Loud in the best way. Conversations layered over a DJ set that kept the tempo just high enough, while servers moved quickly through the crowd with trays of canapés - never quite stopping, always in motion. Glasses clinked, people leaned in close, outfits demanded a second look: it was a scene.
Tommy Hilfiger (Photo Credit: Luxe Magazine / Sal Alibeck)
And the fashion delivered: sculptural coats, sharp tailoring, effortless black-on-black, broken up by moments of risk - metallics, texture, something unexpected. The kind of room where you’re looking at the art, but also very aware of who just walked in.
Then, woven into it all: Fredo’s world.
His Moonlighters - small, tactile, quietly expressive - exist in a completely different rhythm. They move through imagined nights, performing unseen acts of care, operating in silence while the rest of the world sleeps. In another setting, they might feel delicate: here, they felt real and grounded.
Because while the room pulsed - music, movement, energy - the work looked on with something softer: a pause, a closer look.
Photo Credit: PMC / Paul Bruinooge
That contrast is what made the night land beautifully.
The presence of Hilfiger didn’t disrupt the flow: it refined it. A subtle gravitational pull. Conversations tightened, attention shifted, but the energy never dropped: if anything, it sharpened.
By the end of the night, it was clear this wasn’t just an opening: it was a moment. One of those downtown New York evenings where everything aligns: the crowd, the sound, the style, the art.
“The Moonlighters” runs through April 9th, but opening night captured something harder to replicate: a room at full capacity, a city in motion, and somewhere within it all, a quieter world unfolding just beneath the surface.
MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, Michael Fredo (Photo Credit: PMC / Paul Bruinooge
Artist @artofmichaelfredo
Gallery @oneartspace
PR @lawlormedia
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