Best Fashion History

Naysayers disparage the fashion scene in SF, comparing it unfavorably to that of New York or Paris. True, San Franciscans may not always dress for dinner, but we know a good thing when it lands in our proverbial backyard. The de Young Museum has been staging some of the finest rotating fashion exhibits west of the Met’s Costume Institute. A Vivienne Westwood retrospective kicked off the program; next, the museum plays host to the closet of ultimate clotheshorse Nan Kempner, an SF native who had one of the best private couture collections in the world (June 16 to Nov. 11, 2007). Next year brings an exhibition from the archives of Yves Saint Laurent. And they say we don’t know the difference between a Manolo and a flip-flop.

de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., 415-750-3553

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