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Costume designer Mara Blumenfeld must traverse two worlds in "Silk," the latest of her many collaborations with Mary Zimmerman that include "Eleven Rooms of Proust," "Galileo," "The Secret in the Wings" and "Pericles" (the massive production staged at Washington D.C.'s Shakespeare Theater this winter and set to be remounted at the Goodman Theatre in January 2006).

You can see both worlds cataloged in the thick scrapbook she has compiled for this project -- a looseleaf filled with elaborate pictures gleaned from books and Internet sites detailing the clothing styles of rich and poor in the Japan of the late 19th century (see sketch below), as well as the fashions of that same time in Paris.

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