With all due respect to fashion’s dynamic duo, who have certainly created great stylish excitements, Thom Browne’s claim that Andrew Bolton elevated fashion to the status of museum-quality art at the Metropolitan Museum, as reported in the Oct. 27 Style article “The couple that made fashion pop,” is arguable.
Exhibit A is Diana Vreeland, who turned the museum’s industry-centric Costume Institute into a public-facing powerhouse. Exhibit B is Richard Martin and Harold Koda, who preceded Mr. Bolton at the institute and before that worked at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where I recall a show in the 1980s that was given a well-deserved rave review by eminent art critic John Russell.
Michael Gross, New York
The writer is the author of “Rogues’ Gallery,” a history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
