The Fairchild Museum’s New York–specific focus is a nice deviation. And the Costume Institute’s last big outing also centered American fashion, though with a greater emphasis on its relations to European haute couture. Right now, a survey of the work of late artist and designer Virgil Abloh is on at the Brooklyn Museum. Possibly owing to the enduring popularity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, clothing has entered the art institution-not always a seamless process-where its historical weight is given consideration. “A Matter of Style” comes during a fruitful time for fashion exhibitions. “Style is a language and reflects history just like any other sort of visual medium,” writer and image activist Michaela Angela Davis once told WWD. Epochs in American history unfold in front of the photographer’s lens: the stiff skirts synonymous with the nuclear family the beaded, fringed height of the hippies and the dapper power uniform of the Black Panther era.

Downtown luminaries like Andy Warhol and Patti Smith appeared in its pages. There’s Jackie Kennedy, slipping out of her regular lunch spot La Grenouille.

It includes candids of quintessential New York personalities alongside images of ordinary people whose daily dramas unfold outside the spotlight. Valentino Chooses Venice for Couture Collaboration with Artistsįairchild, founded by John Fairchild in 1910, owns one of the most significant fashion photography archives in media. Louis Vuitton Announces Collaboration with Artist Yayoi Kusama

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