New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Schreier’s gift to Met’s Costume Institute includes 165 promised items. In the foreground is a black floral House of Chanel dress designed by Gabrielle Chanel in 1935.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD A 1923 Madeleine & Madeleine evening gown is exhibited at the entrance to the show.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD Two 1925 printed velvet evening capes – one in lavender and the other in burgundy – from Maria Monaci Gallenga.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD The exhibition highlight French couture, American ready-to-wear, and early twentieth-century Italian design.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD A close-up of the train of a 1926 dress that is probably American, required pale pink silk satin and silk net, silver lamé, and embroidered silk taffeta beaded flowers.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD A fan of Schreier’s offered her this pristine chocolate brown velvet Fortuny coat.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD This Christian Dior “Du Barry” evening dress once belonged to Elizabeth Parke Firestone.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD A 1961 Balenciaga evening dress in black silk gazar with colorful polychrome silk flowers, silk and cotton leaves.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD Schreier’s lighter side can be seen in such pieces as the Moschino Cheap and Chic “Art is Love” dress and the Campbell Soup Company’s “Souper” dress.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD A Karl Lagerfeld for Chloe sheath dress with a motif of a dress on a hangar.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD Maison Margaine-Lacroix’s 1913 embroidered evening dress in pale pink silk satin, with black and gold silk net, and gold metal lace.
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New Exhibit Highlights Sandy Schreier’s Donation to The Met
Image Credit: Masato Onoda/WWD Details of a 1925-28 evening dress made with silver gelatin sequins, silver metal studs, clear crystals, and bugle beads and silver lame.