Arts This Week: Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion and Denis O Hare Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion brings together more than 100 objects for an exhibition that spans 250 years of history.
Kathy Tarantola, courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum
A gallery view of Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
Kathy Tarantola, courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum is showcasing the 250-year history of women in fashion design. Prompted in part by the question âwhat does it mean to dress like a woman in clothes?â âMade It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashionâ features 100 objects that chart the strides womenâs fashion has made since the 1700s, when women began moving beyond male-constructed barriers to develop their own fashion. The exhibition features famous designers like Coco Chanel, Katharine Hamnett and Rei Kawakubo, as well as lesser known but equally important historic designers like Elizabeth Keckley, an e