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Article: What's the True Cost of Selling More Than Just the Clothes on the Models' Backs?
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- The Washington Post
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- May 3, 2009
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With the economy shrinking, people's jobs imperiled and
fearfulness about the future infecting even those who are normally
optimistic, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
will unveil its annual spring exhibition on fashion this week. Its
challenge is to lure an audience into a world that in the most high-
flying times still is deemed frivolous and elitist.
Last year, the curators had the prescience to mount an exhibition
on superhero fashion just as the world was focused on the athletic
feats of Olympians and sending "Iron Man" to the top of the box-
office charts. What piece of fashion history might distract folks
from the jittery suspicion that soon the only frock they ...