The Met's Latest Fashion Exhibit Is One of Its Most Important — and Comes From a Woman No One's Heard Of

'In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection' is pulled from one of the most valuable private fashion collections in the world.

"In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection" is pulled from one of the most valuable private fashion collections in the world.Author:Alexandra MondalekUpdated:Nov 27, 2019Original:Nov 27, 2019The name Sandy Schreier is largely unknown outside a small circle of people within the fashion community.

On one end of the exhibit, the Schreier collection highlights interwar fashion, chronicling what the museum calls "l'esprit nouveau" — that is, clothes that signaled the social and artistic upheaval of the era and includes a particularly special square-necked, embroidered black and gold dress by Paul Poiret from 1925.

"I didn't even know what I was looking at, but I was swooning," Schreier says of the clothes she started to receive.

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