Iris Apfel, Eye-Catcher With a Kaleidoscopic Wardrobe, Dies at 102
She came to fame in the fashion world in her 80s and 90s, and her wildly eclectic wardrobe formed a hit exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Posted inCollectors and Collections Costume Institute Design Fashion and Apparel Metropolitan Museum of Art Museums Textiles Women and Girls Women Dressing Women (Exhibit) Women's Rights
The Glory of Designs by Women (It’s About Time)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reimagines the record of fashion, celebrating designers known but also those long, and wrongly, forgotten.
Posted inBolton, Andrew Costume Institute Fashion and Apparel Metropolitan Museum of Art Museums Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion (Exhibit)
The Next Costume Institute Fashion Blockbuster Is Revealed
Gala-goers, start thinking green.
Posted inChloe (Fashion Label) Costume Institute Fashion and Apparel Jewish Museum (Manhattan, NY) Lowe, Ann (1898-1981) Metropolitan Museum of Art Musee des Arts Decoratifs Museums van Herpen, Iris (1984- ) Winterthur Museum
Everyone Thought He Had Made the Famous Gown. It Was His Wife.
This fall, the Metropolitan and three other museums give female designers their due.