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Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum is the largest exhibition of dress the Chicago History Museum has ever produced. Sixty-one of the most significant examples of fashion history were pulled from over 50,000 items in the costume collection. Designers such as Worth, Pingat, Poiret, Vionnet, Chanel, Fath, Dior, Rhodes, Beene, Versace, and Miyake are featured. The exhibition explores the lives of the designers, their creations, and the Chicago women who wore these objects.

This exhibition first opened in October of 2007 at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and has come home to the Chicago History Museum to open on September 27, 2008. When the exhibition first opened in New York, there was much more focus on the garments and their designers. Although the Chicago women were also featured, the fashion component was stronger due to the fact that the exhibition was at a fashion museum. Now that the exhibition is home, we are focusing much more attention on the Chicago women who wore these pieces. The fashion emphasis will still remain, but the Chicago connections are a much stronger part of the exhibition.

Tags: Chic Chicago, Costume and Textile, Couture, Exhibition, Fashion, Timothy Long

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