Oh, Paul Poiret, you dashing up-from-the-bilge-water Parisian. You may have wooed the doe-eyed Sarah Bernhardt with your Asian-inspired Surrealist, Cubist clothing and shouted, "I am an artist, not a dressmaker," but you are still in the Met's basement Costume Institute gallery. Triste, really. The clothing designer who mirrored the progression of Stravinsky and influenced the greats, including Ms. Chanel, is being honored at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a exhibit entitled "Poiret: King of Fashion" which opened May 9 and will run until early August. It is quite magnificent, really. Especially the "Empire" fashion section.
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