Costume Institute – Page 6

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.

By Vanessa Friedman

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The Next Costume Institute Fashion Blockbuster Is Revealed

Gala-goers, start thinking green.

By Vanessa Friedman

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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.

By Vanessa Friedman

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The Met Walks a Fine Line on Karl Lagerfeld: Judge the Clothes, Not the Man.

“The Line of Beauty” focuses on dualities in the dazzling work of the legendary designer, but it is coy about the controversies.

By Vanessa Friedman