Metropolitan Art Museum
February 19, 2013
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

“Up the stairs, make a left, all the way through the print gallery then make a right.

Here’s you press package

You’re  blocking my view

Good morning …high fashion and art…not unique…Paris fashion capital…captivates, expression of modern life…draws on important sources…artists turned fresh eye…observed…conceived the presentation…large number…impressionists, so many fashion plates integrated in a moment… broke attendance records,  people were weeping…organization…four years…invited to go back…delighted…New York explores fashion…institutional collaboration at its best…ongoing, the little black dress, dialogue art and fashion…the green dress…imagined assets, imagined team of specialists, the floor plan…now consider the rest of the space…hats and sprinkling of quotes…tailoring too…just so…just do…the present form…attention to graphic design….the look..detail…the style…poise…the equation added up to something new…grand…the green dress …relationship to the artist…in context the fashion…art and fashion…summer…rainy Paris streets…impressions,  ephemeral weather, the instant, rapid, adapting to the customs of the time, artist recognized the power of the dress…capture the look of the moment…fashion  came to define…this…contemporary…thank you.”

Generally a beautiful exhibition that exhibited both the paintings and the matching clothes, but maybe too matchy matchy and all too high fashion.   Fashion is about what only a small group could afford. We define the age by certain styles that so few wore.  Yes, there are beautiful clothes in the exhibition that were really worn, by the wealthy.   Where are the clothes worn by everyone else? They were made into paper when the rags where sold by rag picks to papermakers.