Here are the bullet points because I know I can get wordy!
1. The Kimono exhibit at the Met was amazing! There until March, go if you can.
2. Many young women wearing bright metallics - gold, silver, rose gold, and copper - in clothing and accessories.
3. Many beautiful ensembles in cream, toffee, vanilla, some with a hit of burnt orange. (I did not take pictures.)
4. Lots of leather and faux leather pants.
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The kimono exhibit was 400 years of kimonos, all fabrics and styles, plus Japanese designers (photo #1 is Issey Miyake), and Western designers influenced by kimono styles. Photo #4 is Thom Browne, but they also showed Clare McCardell, Vionnet, Poriret, and more. The Costume Institute at its best.
The Met also had a moving exhibit of pottery by enslaved workers in South Carolina. Amazing that these pots were signed (in a time when it was against the law for enslaved persons to read or write), let alone engraved with brief poems. And that they survived the destruction of war and time.
Photo #8 is just for fun - I liked her assortment of neutrals, then noticed her fantastic binder clip bag!
Thanks for all of your shopping recs: I did a lot of browsing (COS, Muji, Scotch and Soda, other places) but did not buy anything for myself. There is never enough time in NYC to do it all. I was terribly tempted by photo #11 - the Acceptance Letter cross body bag at the Harry Potter Store! Only 30 bucks!
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