Paris exhibit looks at history of bags, from functional to fashionable
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Style mavens will be scanning the catwalks in Paris this week for next spring's must-have handbag, as a sweeping exhibition at the French capital's fashion and textile museum reveals the bag in all its forms.
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When native designer Valentino packed his  bags for the catwalks of Paris 17 years ago, Rome&#39;s fall from  the pinnacle of fashion glory appeared complete.
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The show, which weaves like a DNA strand through the Metropolitan Museumâs Chinese galleries, has the casual logic of a household photo album, with evidence of shared habits, tastes and temperaments, and of rapport between generations.
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As public fascination with fashion deepens, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts displays Paris's latest haute couture.
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Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto has  given romantic form to functional workwear, draping cobwebs of  black lace over crisp white cotton in the first major show of  the Paris spring-summer collections.
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Remember when women had faces with recognizable features? You almost have to strain to recall after a couple of days of Parisian fashion shows
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This sprawling show of historic masks and contemporary works at the James Cohan Gallery is filled with interesting cross-references and juxtapositions.
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The Hermes "Kelly" and "Birkin" handbags are perennials, while this season the Marc Jacobs "Stam" and Yves Saint Laurent "Downtown" handbags are among the ones to be seen wearing. But what exactly makes an It bag?
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In the lexicon of modern and contemporary art fairs, collectors recognize Art Basel as the biggest and the best.
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ÂTesoros/Treasures/Tesouros,Â now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a rich cultural collision for anyone interested in a big dose of worldliness.
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Revived sixties fashion label Biba,  adored by stars like David Bowie and Mia Farrow, trumpeted its  daring heritage on the catwalks at London Fashion Week with a  mix of designs steeped in its groundbreaking history.
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A history of photography books illuminates the history of photography itself.
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Masterpieces are going mobile at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Artâs new exhibition invites the audience to give its opinion on 65 costumes using computers next to the displays, or online.
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The story behind an exhibition: postcards, designs, photography, travels, history, stamps and law enforcement.
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Fashion designers are coming up with unique theme to create their range of collection.
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Tailoring and fresh proportions was the big story of the fall 2005 men's collections in Paris.