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This is a catalog for the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) on Charles James (1906–78), the talented Anglo-American couturier who worked from the 1930s through the 1950s. His elaborate dress designs used technical and structural innovations that pushed fabric to its physical limits. Koda, the curator in charge of the Met's Costume Institute, describes James's working process and oeuvre as "the calculus of fashion"—relentless experimentation and endless...Log In or Sign Up to Read More