The Legion of Honor opens the first true fashion exhibition of its 91 years to the public on Saturday. High Style: The Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection surveys 20th century style from the early 1900’s to 1980 and features 65 mannequins in apparel ranging from couture gowns to classic American sportswear selected by Jan Glier Reeder, consulting curator for the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accompanying the core looks are 35 accessories, fashion sketches and digital animations rendered by New York interdisciplinary design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro to analyze the form and structure of 1950’s-era Charles James gowns through 3D scans, 360-degree photography, x-rays and microscopy. Originally created for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Charles James: Beyond Fashion, the animations highlight the designer’s architectural approach. Joining the pieces from New York is a cinched-waist, Yves Saint Laurent trapeze dress and hat gifted from a private owner to the Fine Arts Museums. It was originally designed as part of the first Christian Dior collection the then-21-year-old Saint Laurent put forth in the role of head designer. “The identical piece is in the Brooklyn collection. We decided to put our piece in as a nod to our collection,”
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