Tag: Andrew Bolton
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About Time: Fashion and Duration
The PatternVault blog turns nine today! It’s been a pleasure writing about vintage fashion for you, for almost a decade. Speaking of the passage of time, this year’s major Costume Institute show, About Time: Fashion and Duration, also considers questions of style and temporality. Planned to mark the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary, the…
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Early Sixties Chinoiserie
This year’s big Costume Institute exhibit, China: Through the Looking Glass, broke the attendance record previously set by Savage Beauty in 2011 to become the Met’s most-visited costume exhibit. (See WWD.) Andrew Bolton’s catalogue, illustrated with original photography by Platon, is available from Yale University Press. One of the show’s major draws was Wong Kar-wai’s…
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