I popped uptown yesterday to the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute’s new Anna Wintour Costume Center for the press preview of its first exhibition, Charles James: Beyond Fashion spotlighting the career of the legendary 20th-century Anglo-American couturier (1906–1978). Through the years, I’ve seen pieces of James work and many of the gowns on display seemed like beautiful old friends that I was delighted to reaquaint with. But it wasn’t a gown that made me smile. It was seeing his white celenese satin jacket with eiderdown…
A sneak peek into Charles James: Beyond Fashion at the Met
