![]() “I was told to create the second sleeve but to do it with polyester taffeta, and I couldn’t dye it to the same tone. The rogue sleeve was one of his first projects at the museum’s Costume Institute, where he arrived by way of a graduate school internship in the mid-1970s and from which he will step down on January 8, after leading it through some of its most heralded days. Few paid attention to the fact that one sleeve did not match the rest of the painted-silk garment. ![]() All photos courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art unless otherwise notedįor decades, visitors touring the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York would file past a splendid 18th-century dress. His final show there is “ Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style” (top), on view through February 26. January 4, 2016At the end of the week, Harold Koda will retire as the curator in charge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York (portrait by Tatijana Shoan). ![]()
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