Gallery View: The Secret Life of Textiles: Synthetic Materials . © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery View: Performance. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery View: Inherent Vice. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Deterioration on Herbert Levine polyurethane boot from 1966, part of the Costume Institute conservation lab's study collection. Photo by the author.
Two evening belts (viewed through linear polarized light) by Elsa Schiaparelli, circa 1938. Cellulose acetate and metal. Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
André Courrèges dress from 1968, made of cellulose acetate, silk and cotton. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery View: Aesthetics. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery View: Performance. With bathing trunks by Pierre Cardin, spring/summer 1975, and another pair by Jantzen, 1930–49. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art