Apollo, July 1st, 2007
'Paul Poiret: King of Fashion', Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 9 May-5 August, +1 212 535 7710. Catalogue by Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, et al., ISBN 973791361321 (paper), $65 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications).
'A woman's clothes are a pleasure for the eye that should not be judged inferior to the other arts.' Equating feminine attire with the fine arts in terms of aesthetic pleasure comes as no surprise to the present-day reader. The emergence of 'the arts of the camera' during the 19th century and their claim to the status of fine art rather than 'm...
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