The kimono exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - TopicsExpress



          

The kimono exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York closes today! Here is the Times review in case you missed it. Throughout, the show revels in the versatility of the kimono — a garment worn by men and women, commoners and elite samurai, Westerners and the Japanese alike. Although the curators include some incredibly luxurious examples, like the sky-blue silk satin robe embroidered with gold shells that may have been part of a wealthy young woman’s trousseau, they also make room for coats worn by farmers and firefighters (which, to a contemporary eye, are just as fabulous with their patchworks of recycled fabric and printed figures from Japanese folklore).
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 01:16:10 +0000

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