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Design, 1925–50

October 1, 2004

By Alexandra Griffith Winton

Inspired in part by pre-war European efforts to democratize design through industrial production, [the Good Design] movement energetically promoted modern design to the American consumer through museum exhibitions, trade shows, and advertising.
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Design Reform

October 1, 2006

By Sara J. Oshinsky

Design reformers attempted to help a new and rapidly growing generation of middle-class homemakers create artistic yet healthy homes.
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Nō Costume

December 1, 2008

By Joyce Denney

In performance, Nō’s austere bare stage and the severe elegance of its powerful masks combine with the multiple layers of shimmering costume to give the actor an oversized sculptural presence as he moves with the music and chanting of the chorus.
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Costume in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

October 1, 2004, revised September 1, 2014

By The Costume Institute

The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than 35,000 costumes and accessories spanning five continents and just as many centuries, arguably the greatest such collection in the world.
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Shoes in The Costume Institute

October 1, 2004

By Jessa Krick

Shoes provide important clues to dramatic changes in fashionable dress through the centuries, documenting shifts in aesthetic taste, as well as advances in design and manufacturing techniques.
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The Museum of Costume Art established a pattern of collecting that continues to inform The Costume Institute’s acquisitions program to this day.
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The Museum announced today that the spring 2011 Costume Institute exhibition will be Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. The exhibition, on view May 4–July 31, 2011, will celebrate the late Mr. McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion.
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Design, 1950–75

October 1, 2004

By Jared Goss

New materials and technologies, many of which had been developed during wartime, helped to free design from tradition, allowing for increasingly abstract and sculptural aesthetics as well as lower prices for mass-produced objects.
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Design, 1900–1925

October 1, 2004

By Jared Goss

By the turn of the twentieth century, a new stylistic vocabulary—with distinct regional characteristics—had been firmly established. Whether realistic or abstract, exuberant or restrained, curvilinear or geometric, there was a consistency in the purposeful rejection of outmoded tastes and exploration of new design influences.
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Date: late 15th–early 16th century
Accession Number: 1983.413

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Part of the decoration design by Jean Cousin the Elder (French, Souci (?) ca. 1490–ca. 1560 Paris (?))

Date: ca. 1555
Accession Number: 39.121a–n

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Helmet signed by Bamen Tomotsugu (Japanese, Echizen province, Toyohara, active 18th century)

Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 2001.642

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Clockmaker: Ahasuerus I Fromanteel (British, Norwich, England 1607–1693)

Date: ca. 1660–65
Accession Number: 1974.28.93

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Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) (French (born Russia), St. Petersburg 1892–1990 Paris)

Date: 1960s
Accession Number: 1980.130a–c

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Léon Bakst (Russian (born present day Belarus), Hrodna (Grodno) 1866–1924 Paris)

Date: 1922–23
Accession Number: 1978.184.4a–c

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Date: 15th–16th century
Accession Number: 04.3.456b

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Art

Dress

Issey Miyake (Japanese, 1938–2022)

Date: spring/summer 1990
Accession Number: 2001.711

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Enamel on reverse after a design by Etienne Delaune (French, Orléans 1518/19–1583 Strasbourg)

Date: ca. 1550–60, back: 19th century
Accession Number: 17.190.907

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Probably after a design by Reinhold Vasters (German, Erkelenz 1827–1909 Aachen)

Date: probably second half 19th century
Accession Number: 1982.60.384