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A Fashion Historian Quietly Amassed One of the World’s Greatest Collections of Couture—and Now It’s on View at the Met

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Nov 26, 2019
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened its latest Costume
Institute exhibition, giving viewers a glimpse into one of the
greatest collections in fashion history, gifted to the museum by
historian and collector Sandy Schreier.

The exhibition features 80 pieces of a promised gift of 165
items, including designs by Pierre Balmain, Gabrielle Chanel,
Patrick Kelly, Roberto Rojas, and Elsa Schiaparelli. The items
are pulled from Schreier’s holdings of thousands of objects
and garments.

“My passion for fashion as an art form drove me to search for
the most innovative, creative, and breathtaking objects by
well-known and lesser-known talents,” Schreier, who found her
love for clothing as a child in Michigan, said in a statement
accompanying the show’s announcement.

Sandy Schreier at her home in
Southfield, Michigan, in 1998. © Susan Tusa /Detroit Free Press via
ZUMA Wire.

The exhibition highlights Schreier’s immense holdings of French
couture, American ready-to-wear clothing, and items by early
20th-century Italian designers.

Organized by Andrew Bolton, it is divided into three sections
that trace the arc of her collecting career, emphasizing various
design achievements that coincided with changes in pop culture.

See highlights from the show below, arranged according to
gallery.

“In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier
Collection” is on view at the Met Fifth Avenue from November
27, 2019, to May 17, 2020.

 

“In Pursuit of Beauty:
Origins of a Collection”

Gallery view, "In Pursuit of Beauty: Origins of a Collection" © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “In Pursuit of Beauty:
Origins of a Collection.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Crisobal Balenciaga, Evening
Dress (Summer 1961). Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Photo: Nicholas Alan Cope.

 

“The Past Recaptured:
Fortuny and Gallenga”

Gallery view, "The Past Recaptured: Fortuny and Gallenga" © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “The Past Recaptured:
Fortuny and Gallenga.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, "The Past Recaptured: Fortuny and Gallenga" © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “The Past Recaptured:
Fortuny and Gallenga.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, "The Message Is the Medium: Fashion that Speaks" © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “The Past Recaptured:
Fortuny and Gallenga.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

“L’Espirit Nouveau: The
Interwar Era”

Gallery view, "L'Esprit Nouveau: The Interwar Era" © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “L’Esprit Nouveau: The
Interwar Era.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, "L'Esprit Nouveau: The Interwar Era" © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “L’Esprit Nouveau: The
Interwar Era.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “L’Esprit Nouveau: The
Interwar Era.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “L’Esprit Nouveau: The
Interwar Era.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

“The Message Is the Medium:
Fashion That Speaks”

Gallery view, "The Message Is the Medium: Fashion that Speaks" © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “The Message Is the
Medium: Fashion that Speaks.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Christian Francis Roth, Breakfast
Suit (Spring/summer 1990). Image courtesy of The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Photo: Nicholas Alan Cope.

Gallery view, "The Message Is the Medium: Fashion that Speaks" © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gallery view, “The Message Is the
Medium: Fashion that Speaks.” © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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