The Young Fellows Ball

Nearly 700 fresh-faced supporters of the Frick Collection dressed up in a "Porcelain Garden” theme to celebrate the museum's long-awaited reopening.

- INTERVIEWS BY JEREMY RELLOSA AND ELIZABETH GULINO

ALLISON ECUNG VON ARNIM

Baroness, Upper West Side and Berlin, Germany

Can you tell me about your dress?

Well, during the pandemic, the Frick Young Fellows had this book club that was about Madame du Barry, Louis XV's lover. At the museum, there are these panels called The Progress of Love that Jean-Honoré Fragonard made for her. She commissioned them, but when she went to pick them up, she was like, "I don't like them." They stayed with Fragonard a long time. I've always loved them, so when Bach Mai designed my dress, he imprinted one of the panels on the front. It turns out when he was in school, he did one of his thesis projects using a print of this Fragonard. So I was like, "Can we do that?”

It’s incredible. So what's the day-to-day life of a baroness like?

I think it's much like the day-to-day life of any other person who is married. I would say baroness is not so much a job title or a duty as it is a name—it's officially part of my last name now. I'm just so lucky that I married the most wonderful man, and his family is amazing.

CAITLYN BRENNAN

Technical recruiter, Midtown East

DANIEL WALTERS

DJ, Gramercy