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Fashion and History: A Dialogue
1992 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fashion and History: A Dialogue was a 1992 exhibition of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met).
The exhibit featured European and American clothing and accessories from a variety of time periods.
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The curator was Katell Le Bourhis.[1] The exhibition ran from December 7, 1992, to March 21, 1993[2] and had more than 200 pieces, many of them donated. Of that total, 120 mannequins were assembled entirely.[1]
The event took place in the basement, a space of 5,000 square feet, and had four central themes: Floral Imagery, Symbolism of Black and White, Geometric and Abstract Imagery, and The Evolution of Tweeds.[1][3]
Background
Le Bourhis' aim for the exhibition was to portray fashion as "a dialogue between the ideas of the moment and those of the past; ...
a discourse between the values and creativity of present-day soc