Gustave Caillebotte, ‘Paris Street; Rainy Day,’ 1877. (Art Institute of Chicago/Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Much as it sounds like the drag pseudonym of an America’s Next Top Model judge, “Miss Satin” was the pen name used by experimental poet Stéphane Mallarmé when writing about women’s clothing. Fancy hats were a favorite topic: “I could go on for hours,” he giddily opined in the pages of The Latest Fashion, the fashion magazine he founded in 1874. Shy young Paul Cézanne painted models copied from the pages of his sister’s fashion magazines. Poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire saw nothing more modern than the ephemeral beauty of a stylish shoe or chic accessory.
A new show at the Met, curated by the museum’s Susan Alyson Stein, makes the
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