![]() ![]() ![]() Studded throughout the exhibition, like fashion bread crumbs for the Hansel and Gretel museumgoer, are case studies offering what Bolton calls “deep-dive analyses” of various garments that hold particular resonance, starting with a grouping of Brooks Brothers coats-from the one Abraham Lincoln was wearing when he was assassinated to the livery worn by an enslaved man-shedding light on “the hidden story of Brooks Brothers, which has clothed 40 presidents…but also had a thriving trade making uniforms for enslaved men and women.” It’s more dynamic.”īeginning with the largely anonymous dressmakers of the early 19th century, the exhibition tours the American rooms, graduating into the emergence of such name dressmakers as Oscar de la Renta and Bill Blass. “You end up-and this is what I wanted-with something that is, in a way, discordant. “You’re dealing with nine different directors who have very different aesthetics and very different ways of working,” Bolton says. And what better way to narrate these stories than through that most American of art forms: cinema.
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