“Women Dressing Women” is a ground-breaking brand-new exhibition at NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art that  (finally) celebrates the role of women in fashion. It’s based on the shocking reality that nearly all the leading fashion houses have male designers,  And white ones at that 

To date the Met has mounted solo shows to only two female designers  Madame Grès,  in 1994 —and the avant-gardist Rei Kawakubo, whose retrospective occurred in 2017.

So this new exhibit is a celebration of work from the museum’s own collection by over 70 different female designers from the early 20th century to the present, including French haute couture from houses such as Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Madeleine Vionnet, to American makers like Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell, and Isabel Toledo, along with contemporary designs by Iris van Herpen, Rei Kawakubo, Anifa Mvuemba, and Simone Rocha.

Plus it will be the first time that at least half of the 83 pieces on display have ever been seen.

Through March 3, 2024
The Met Fifth Avenue, Galleries 980-981