What is the fashion world like through the eyes of an 8-year-old boy?

Max Alexander, fashion designer and social media personality, with one of creations at the Conrad New York Downtown hotel in New York. Photo: The New York Times

“Look at you in linen,” designer Isaac Mizrahi said to a young fan he was meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on a Thursday in August, to see the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition.

“And I’m dressed like Uncle Fester,” continued Mizrahi, who was wearing dark clothes.