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Curator Interview: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity

August 5, 2010

By Jennette Mullaney

Among the gorgeous garments on display in the exhibition American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (closing August 15) is an exquisite black evening dress attributed to Madame Marie Gerber of the house of Callot Soeurs. I spoke with Andrew Bolton, curator in the Met's Costume Institute, about the dress's bold design and glamorous, influential owner.

Art

Rita de Acosta Lydig

1917

Adolf de Meyer

Platinum print

Art

Evening vest

ca. 1910

Callot Soeurs

silk, linen, metal

Press Release

"American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" at Metropolitan Museum to Open May 5, 2010; First Costume Institute Exhibition Based on Renowned Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection

editorial

Are Yantorny's Virtuoso Shoe Trees Really Old Violins?

November 1, 2016

By Jan Glier Reeder, Glenn Petersen, and Mechthild Baumeister

Conservators Glenn Petersen and Mecka Baumeister and Jan G. Reeder, former consulting curator for the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Costume Institute, examine the mystery behind and debunk the myths around Pierre Yantorny and his work.