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Strut your Fashion History Knowledge for a copy of Charles James
Posted on May 9, 2014The annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala took place on Monday night, with all anticipated beauty, glamour, and fashion bewitchery that marks these occasions. The emphasis on elegance […] -
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Impossible Outfit: Keeping Warm and Looking Cool
Posted on November 29, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Dear Paper Doll, The winter chill is setting in—oh, how I dread this time of year! I was raised, and spent all of my fashion-formative years, in a […] -
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Impossible Outfit: PUNK Edition
Posted on June 7, 2013Dear Paper Doll, My 35th high school reunion is approaching. Though you’d hardly know it to look at me now – I’m an anesthesiologist (I claim this career choice was […] -
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Notes from the Field: Schiaparelli and Prada at The Met’s Costume Institute
Posted on May 10, 2012“Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations,” which opens today, May 10, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been long awaited by those eager to see firsthand the ties that bind […] -
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Sarah Scherf on 100 Dresses for Books & Culture
Posted on April 18, 2011For the first time, Books & Culture has a video accompanying a review; that of Sarah Scherf on Harold Koda’s 100 Dresses from the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum […]