Fashion Peal - Fashion and Lifestyle Hub » advertising http://www.fashionpeal.com Fashionable Living - News and Tips Thu, 06 May 2010 12:43:34 +0000 en hourly 1 Costume Institute Explores Fashion Models as Muses http://www.fashionpeal.com/costume-institute-explores-fashion-models-as-muses.html http://www.fashionpeal.com/costume-institute-explores-fashion-models-as-muses.html#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 15:24:48 +0000 Fashion Hub http://fashionpeal.com/?p=32 New York – While seeing the face of a celebrity on the cover of a fashion magazine or starring in an advertising campaign for Louis Vuitton is the rule, rather than the exception these days, once upon a time it was the professional model who brought the collections of designers like Christian Dior, Cristobal Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Halston and Calvin Klein to the public, and to life.

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hese women, who functioned as the standards of ideal beauty during any given era and in turn, had a hand in shifting that ideal – from the poise and polish of someone like Dovima in the ’50s, to the waifish Twiggy to the rise of black models like Iman and Beverly Johnson in the ’70s – are the focus of a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute this spring, “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion,” which celebrated its opening at the museum in New York Monday night, May 4, with the annual star-studded gala that is one of fashion’s biggest nights.

Sources: news.yahoo.com

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