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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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Gift Wrapping That Doesn’t Create Waste

For centuries the Japanese have used furoshiki, beautifully printed pieces of fabric. Here, two experts tell how to do it.

By Victoria Gomelsky

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A Traditional Japanese Technique Creates a Jeweled Bag

Asprey presents the Hikihaku Matchbox, a clutch made of metallic threads woven by hand.

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Setting Off Embroidery Fireworks

Lesage, a French specialty house now owned by Chanel, has been using sequins, beads and metallic threads to create explosions of color for decades.

By Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times