By Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
An unusual sort of glamour has appeared in the old New England mill town of Lowell, Mass., with the opening of the exhibition “High Style: Betsy Bloomingdale and the Haute Couture” at the American Textile History Museum. Forty-one creations by such masters as Hubert de Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Marc Bohan for Dior, James Galanos, Yves Saint Laurent, Gianfranco Ferré for Dior, André Courrèges and Adolfo Sardiña are on view in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the textile museum. It is a heady celebration of the genius of the couturier and his needle, tailoring and fit, the sweep and fold of exquisite textures. Finally, it is a look at an already vanished lifestyle in which one wore haute couture as a matter of course.
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