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Thursday May 16th, 2013

Steven Meisel Pays Homage to Cecil Beaton
Part Nouveau x Fashionista

Steven Meisel Pays Homage to Cecil Beaton

New blog Part Nouveau, or ‘partly new’, delves into fashion history to showcase the inspiration–be it art, photography or design–behind some of today’s biggest fashion moments. It’s fascinating and impossible not to get lost in, so we asked the site’s founder, Lilah Ramzi, to give us a little history lesson each week.

In this week’s lesson, Steven Meisel takes on an iconic Cecil Beaton photograph.

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Monday May 3rd, 2010

American Women at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute

American Women at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute

This morning, the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a press preview of the Costume Institute’s newest exhibition, The American Woman: Fashioning A National Identity. Andrew Bolton, the Institute’s curator, spoke at length about the exhibit’s evolution and the Museum’s decision to “structure the exhibition around the archetypes of American femininity.” When they started talking about Read more →

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Published at 6:13 PM