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VPOD: Seduction at The Museum at FIT



I’m planning a trip to NYC in April and hoping to schedule an excursion over the The Museum at FIT to see Seduction, a chronological survey of over 250 years of sexuality in fashion. There are seventy looks and forty accessories in the exhibit from a rather demure Belle Epoque corset to an over-the-top Galliano skintight black leather evening gown.

Today’s VPOD features one standout from the exhibit–a 1970s silk jersey evening dress by Halston. Totally S-e-x-y! And you haven’t even seen the wrapped back. It’s a fine example of just how far fashion has traveled. To think that there was a day when a woman’s chest was fully covered and the simple sight of ankles glimpsed under a crinoline was considered shocking!

Yes, seduction, that art of temptation and enticement, can be displayed in fashion in both daring and subtle ways. And you can witness many of the finest examples in Seduction from now until June 16, 2009.

It’s fashion at its finest for a vintage fashionista!

For more information, visit The Museum at FIT.

Photo by Irving Solero, courtesy of The Museum at FIT, New York

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Written on February 18, 2009 by Mary Kincaid in Evening Gown, Exhibits, Halston
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VPOD: Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Exhibit



If you’d like to see the first Yves Saint Laurent retrospective since his death earlier this year, you’ll have to travel to the De Young Museum in San Francisco–and it would be well worth the trip. The 130 pieces and sketches on display span this designer’s 40+ year career, starting with his early days at Dior and leading up to his retirement in 2002, and are on loan from the Foundation Pierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.

You’ll find everything from his 1988 “Irises” jacket with 40 pounds of sequins and beads to a 1990s coat made from the feathers of roosters, pheasants and vultures. And of course you’ll find his iconic Mondrian-inspired dresses from 1965 and the first le smoking jacket from 1966.

The exhibition runs through April 5, 2009 but for a quick 5-minute glimpse, you can visit the exhibition’s website and watch this video.

It’s pure eye candy for a vintage fashionista!

More information available here.

Photo credit: Copyright The Estate of Jeanloup Sieff

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Written on December 16, 2008 by Mary Kincaid in Exhibits, vintage, Yves Saint Laurent
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VPOD: James Galanos American Luxury



With the fashion industry so focused on the outside, it’s good to remember that it’s what’s on the inside that counts. No matter how beautiful a woman may appear to the eye, if she is nasty or mean-spirited her beauty will diminish the minute she opens her mouth. And James Galanos knew that what was on the inside counted, too. He established a reputation for creating garments whose insides were just as meticulously finished and beautiful as their outsides.

Today’s VPOD, a 1980s wool dress, is a fine example of his excellent tailoring and is available for a stylish fashionista to call her own. But more than 120 other Galanos masterpieces are available as eye candy at Kent State University’s exhibit, James Galanos American Luxury, which runs until March 1, 2009 on the university campus. If you’re in my old stomping grounds of northeast Ohio, be sure to visit.

It’s a Galanos treat for a vintage fashionista!

Available at Frock Vintage NYC.
For more information on the exhibit, click here.

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Written on October 3, 2008 by Mary Kincaid in 1980s, Designer, Dresses, Exhibits, Galanos
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VPOD: Arbiters of Style



Women have always played a significant role in fashion and The Museum at FIT is celebrating their contributions in a special exhibit, Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion. The show runs through November 8 and features over seventy looks from influential female designers as well as fashion leaders like Diane Vreeland, fashion executive Rose Marie Bravo, photographer Louise Dahl Wolf and Lauren Bacall.

These arbiters of style–though often not well-known by the general public–have influenced and shaped fashion for over 250 years as revealed in the exhibition’s selected garments from the eighteenth century to today.

If you’re in NYC, be sure to visit the museum in person. If you won’t be visiting the Big Apple anytime soon, the museum’s online exhibit is the next best thing.

It’s a fascinating journey for a vintage fashionista!

Photo Credit: Irving Salero/The Museum at FIT

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Written on September 15, 2008 by Mary Kincaid in Exhibits
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VPOD: The Art of the Kimono



This is the final week to catch The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition: Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan. The exhibition features about 85 kimonos for men, women and children from the early to mid-twentieth century. And this is the first time these outstanding kimonos, from the renowned Montgomery Collection of Lugano, Switzerland, are being seen in North America.

Today’s VPOD features just one of the masterpieces from the collection. This woman’s Japanese kimono dates from the Taisho period of 1912-1926 and is an example of machine-spun silk with stencil-printed warp threads. What a beauty!

And for those of you unable to attend the exhibit, there are pictures, information and kimono history available at the exhibition’s website.

It’s a lovely way to discover the art of the kimono for a vintage fashionista!

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Written on July 14, 2008 by Mary Kincaid in Exhibits, Kimono
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