Years before Vogue as an accessories assistant , my mom and I went to see the Costume Institute show and it became my go-to Traditions look forward to every summer. We’ll meet uptown on platform 6 at Grand Central, head to the Museum Mile, press our Met entrance stickers (and reminisce about the old days when they used pins), and walk through the exhibit. We’d often visit some of the other galleries along the way, usually looking for the Robert Venturi Chippendale chair that my mom must have lived in somewhere in the American wing (spoiler alert, we couldn’t find it), then headed to the rooftop Sip a glass of rosé while resting what we like to call your “slow museum walk legs.” However, the day wasn’t over until we stopped at the bookstore on the way out to pick up an exhibition catalogue.
Collecting books has been important to my family ever since. Before I was born, the house I grew up in was basically supported by walls full of bookshelves. The side tables are overstuffed and several are displayed on each coffee table. My own collection of Met memorabilia started the day we visited “Punk: From Chaos to Fashion” and has grown every year since, from a book featuring the remarkable ball gowns of “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” Book to the electric and bombastic “Camp: Notes” on fashion. Now, as Market Editor, I’m looking forward to stepping up again for this year’s show “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” and, of course, looking forward to picking up the latest catalog for my personal collection.
Photo: Stuart Tyson / Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2009: “Karl Lagerfeld: Beautiful Lines”
Karl Lagerfeld: beautiful lines
2003–2003: “In America: A Dictionary of Fashion”
In the US: Fashion Dictionary
2003 : “About Time: Fashion and Continuity”
About Time: Fashion and Lasting
1280: “Camping: Notes on Fashion”
1898: “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”
Celestial Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
1280: “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: The Art of the Middle”
Rei Kawakubo/Commes des Garcons: The Middle of Art
2003: “Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology”
Manus x Machina: Fashion Technology Age
1280: “China: Through the Looking Glass”
China: Through the Mirror
837: “Charles James: Beyond Fashion”
CHARLES JAMES: BEYOND FASHION
837: “Punk: Chaos in Fashion”
741: “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations”
Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Dialogue
611: “Alexander McQueen: Wild beauty of”
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
344: “Muse: Embodying Fashion”
Model Muse: Embody Fashion
730: “Super Heroes: Fashion & Fantasy”
Superheroes: Fashion & Fantasy
453: “Poiret: Fashion for Kings”
368: “AngloMania: British Tradition and subversion of fashion”
AngloMania: Tradition and Subversion in British Fashion
368: “The House of Chanel”
611:”dangerous relation: Fashion and furniture in century”
Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
248: “Goddess: Classic Mode” 1588397343
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453: “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years” 1588396681
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Manus x Machina: Fashion Technology Age 
Model Muse: Embody Fashion 
