‘Masterworks’ at the Met puts focus on fashion as an art form

November 9, 2016 By publisher

Opening at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 18, the Costume Institute's fall 2016 exhibition, “Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion,” will put the spotlight on the collecting strategies that have helped the department acquire iconic works from the history of fashion. The exhibition will feature about 60 such masterworks, dating from the early 18th century to the present and acquired by the Costume Institute in the last ten years. Ensembles will be displayed in packing crates — as though they've just arrived at the Met — accompanied by an explanation of their significance in the fashion industry.

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Two wounded in break-in at supermodel’s California mansion

October 15, 2016 By admin

An intruder was shot and a security guard stabbed during a break-in at the Malibu mansion of supermodel Miranda Kerr, police and local media reported. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department described the Friday morning incident in a statement, but did not mention the home owner's name. Supermodel Kerr married Hollywood star Orlando Bloom in 2010 and gave birth to the couple's child the following year.

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Costume Institute looks at the great masters for Fall 2016 fashion exhibition

July 28, 2016 By creative

The Costume Institute has revealed the theme for its Fall 2016 exhibition. Titled “Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion,” the exhibition will go on show in the New York museum's Anna Wintour Costume Center this November, featuring significant fashion acquisitions over the past 10 years. Curated by Assistant Curator Jessica Regan and Curator in Charge Andrew Bolton, the show will explore iconic works by designers who have changed the course of fashion history and look at how the department has amassed its collection of masterworks.

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Arkansas sheriff digs into clothing budget for fashion statement

March 28, 2016 By admin

By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – An Arkansas sheriff with a similar name to a Wild West legend has spent about half of his office’s clothing budget to supply deputies in his mostly urban county with fashionable cowboy hats to top off their uniforms. Sheriff Doc Holladay of Pulaski County, which contains the capital, Little Rock, said he had the money left in the budget for black felt cowboy hats at $155 each for cooler days and white straw versions at $42 each for warmer temperatures. Holladay said he favored the cowboy hat since it had long been traditional in sheriff’s departments across the United States.  “We’ve had no standard for headgear in our department and I don’t think ball caps are necessarily the thing to do,” Holladay said, adding the new headgear “looks sharp.” John “Doc” Holliday was a dentist turned gambler and gunman who joined forces with lawman Wyatt Earp in the famed Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881.

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Russia’s luxury flagship store turns to Chinese spenders

February 5, 2016 By admin

By Olga Sichkar and Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) – Framed by Swarovski crystal figurines and crocodile skin-clad smart phones, sales promotions at Moscow's exclusive TsUM department store are being publicized in two languages: Russian, of course, and now Chinese. The bi-lingual signs, promising to match the prices of all luxury goods with those on sale in Milan, are part of a push by store operator Mercury to encourage high-spending Chinese visitors to shop in TsUM'S neo-Gothic store, rather than the boutiques of the Italian fashion capital. Luxury retailers have fared better than many mass-market brands during Russia's economic crisis but they still need foreign shoppers to compensate for falling spending by local consumers.

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