American Stars and Stripes

The headmaster stands beneath two flapping flags: the American Stars and Stripes and Middlefield Prep’s blue-and-gold sword insignia.

At night, mothers and daughters dance to Katy Perry’s “Firework” as people wave the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and the American Stars and Stripes.

The Irish tricolor and the American stars and stripes flying from its bowed facade staked claim on rarefied pavement, directly across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

For this season, the collection has been supplemented with the American stars and stripes, in a nod to the brand’s global reach.

The American Stars and Stripes with its 50 stars, and the Puerto Rican emblem, with its single one, intertwine amid the flurry, giving the illusion that they have fused: 51 stars in a single banner of red, white and blue.