Word: royalities
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...Costumes of Royal India," of which this fabulous piece of cotton is just a small part, springs into New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a vitality and dignity well beyond that of most exhibitions of clothing. All is ravishment: a child's coat made of silver fabric embroidered with gold thread; a woman's costume of veil, tunic and pajamas that plays with sunset shades of gold and violet. Fashion and society are the prevailing standards that squeeze museum costume shows tight, but "Costumes of Royal India" celebrates an ongoing tradition--of craft, of coloration, of symbolic...
...their nature, most museum costume shows are retrospectives, evocations of some bygone era or long-spent style. "Royal India" may be the longest shadow of the imperial sunset, but the techniques this show celebrates--like tie-dying, brocading, hand embroidering and intricate weaving--are still practiced. The exhibit, which opens to the public on Dec. 20, contains some 150 separate costumes, but as Indian Curator Martand Singh points out, "there is not a piece of textile here that is not produced today." The costumes come from 16 former royal families, and a few had to be returned for use during...
...Granted," the Queen said, "Rosen has no royal velvet blood. But his blood is true Crimson, and that's good enough for Phil...
Neither Bok nor Queensie would comment on Diana's plans. But a source close to the royal family told The Crimson in an expensive but exclusive transatlantic phone interview that Diana would likely make the trip to Cambridge with her husband...
...just won't work, no, no, no," the royal source told The Crimson...