New York Fashion Week is wrapping up tomorrow, and it's probably safe to say that the most NYC event was Tom Ford's show on Monday night, when the designer unveiled his Spring/Summer 2020 collection in the Bowery subway station.

The Bowery station is a working station, serving the J and Z lines, though some in attendance called it "abandoned" on social media). The show was staged on the abandoned platform in the station, however. MTA workers were on hand for safety reasons (like keeping people off the tracks).

Fashionista editor-in-chief Tyler McCall described how show attendees got to the station:

Showgoers were first corralled at the Nolita outpost of Nom Wah Tea Parlor and plied with drinks and appetizers before being lead down a dark staircase, the stark white subway tiles giving way to neon lights. In an absolute coup of staging... Ford transformed the forgotten space into a grungy-glam runway, complete with stage lights, booming music and even portable air conditioners. Real MTA workers trolled the tracks, and while they were surely there for liability purposes, the bright orange of their vests did lend to the overall ambiance. Models like Gigi Hadid and Kaia Gerber stalked down the runway and stopped at the middle, turning to look audience members haughtily in the eye — pretty much a spot-on approximation of waiting to ride the subway, speaking from personal experience.

(She also added that this is a pretty popular station with fashion designers.)

Ford had been teasing the show on Instagram with subway-influenced messages:

Ford explained that the show's locale was inspired by a photograph of Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick coming out of a manhole, as well as the 1985 Luc Besson film Subway, which takes place in the Paris Metro.

The designer told the AP, "I remember so clearly when [Subway] came out thinking how cool [actors Isabella Adjani and Christopher Lambert both looked. Especially the hair."

The NY Times' Vanessa Friedman considered how perhaps is show was a sign of the times:

Are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders the muses of the moment? This is what I was wondering while sitting deep in the bowels of New York on an unused J/Z station on Kenmare Street, watching Tom Ford’s version of simplicity go by. Industry-watchers spent a lot of time speculating in the run-up to this fashion week about what form the industry’s politicization and opposition to the current administration would take, but perhaps it’s not so much President Trump who has had a trickle-down effect on the designer mind, but his competition. I mean, there was Mr. Ford trading the Park Avenue Armory, his usual venue, for the Lower East Side; his preshow quaff of Champagne for Sapporo beer; there he was making … jeans.

See more from last night's show below:

This is certainly not the first fashion show to be held in a subway station, in NYC or elsewhere — CR Fashion Book pointed out the staging "also recalls Martin Margiela's groundbreaking Spring/Summer 1992 presentation in Paris, the first fashion show to ever take place in a subway. Staged in a Metro Station that had been abandoned since the '30s, Margiela's catwalk was revolutionary in that it challenged the status quo of high fashion."

In 2004 designer Yeohlee Teng hosted a fashion show at the 42nd Street-Times Square station (Farrah Fawcett even took the platform runway), and more recently, in 2015, designer Kim Mesches held her show on the L train (both on the train car and on platforms off the line).