Selling more than just the clothes on the models' backs
Photos
Metropolitan Opera's 125th anniversary gala
Costume Ball at the Met
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.
>> See celebrities...
