Art
Camp at the Met Museum: A Serious Fail at “Failed Seriousness”
The problem with the exhibition is that it’s simultaneously too self-aware and too clueless to capture the essence of camp.
Fashion
Satire
Kanye West and Ivanka Trump Collaborate on "Make America Yeezus" Fashion Line
Kanye West and Ivanka Trump have created the fashion line "Make America Yeezus," with Trump designing her own pair of Yeezys.
Art
How Fashion Has Constricted Women’s Bodies Over 250 Years
An exhibit at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology looks at society's obsession with the body through garments from the late 1700s to our time.
Books
How Tuberculosis Symptoms Became Ideals of Beauty in the 19th Century
In Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates how the fatal symptoms of tuberculosis became entwined with feminine ideals in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
History
Elaborate Halloween Costume Tips from a 19th-Century Guide to Fancy Dress
Looking for a Halloween costume? Here's a 19th-century guide to dressing for fancy balls, with costumes for witches, carrier pigeons, glowworms, and air.
Art
MoMA’s Items Exhibition is Smart About Fashion but Too Cozy with Advertising
The ambitious show takes fashion seriously, but blurs the line between design and commerce.
Art
The Outlandish and Beautiful Juxtapositions of Rei Kawakubo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute dedicates its second solo show of a living designer to Rei Kawakubo, who started her daring clothing label Comme des Garçons in 1973.
Art
The Timeless Blackness of Balenciaga’s Dresses
An exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle showcases some 60 pieces designed by Cristóbal Balenciaga, highlighting his sculptural manipulations of black fabric.
Art
50 Years of Indigenous Fashion at the National Museum of the American Indian
Native Fashion Now brings together works by 67 designers and artists from the US and Canada who are melding generations-old practices and contemporary couture.
Art
Why Victorian Men Had Glorious Beards
The Age of the Beard at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London examines through photographs the Victorian mania for elaborate facial hair.
Art
A Burial Suit of Mushrooms that Consume Your Remains
Despite embalming and sealed caskets being a relatively new tradition in American burial, brought about by the high mortality of the Civil War, we've quickly become uncomfortable with our mortal decay.
Art
A Cherokee Fashion Designer Who Mixed Native Modernism with Midcentury Trends
SANTA FE, NM — The worlds of fashion and fine art often collide, both in the museum and on the runway.