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Alaina Demopoulos

Women Dressing Women review: it felt like a screening of the Barbie movie

five gowns on mannequins
At Women Dressing Women, inside the Met’s Costume Institute. Photograph: Anna-Marie Kellen

There weren’t many men visiting Women Dressing Women, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibit on female designers through modern history. It was as if all the ladies who attended had checked their boyfriends or husbands at the door, where they huddled together like dads outside a Forever 21 dressing room during back-to-school shopping season.

light brownish-pink dress with 3D roses on skirt
A 1968 evening dress by Ann Lowe. Photograph: Alaina Demopoulos
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