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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The new "Models as Muse" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates some of the world’s most beautiful women yet it shows how ideals of beauty have evolved to include the rest of women as well, its curator said on Monday. Opening this week at the museum’s Costume Institute, the exhibit traces high fashion and its models from post-World War Two haute couture to grunge and minimalism of the 1990s, with iconic photographs, magazine covers, advertisements, clothes, music and film clips to illustrate each distinctive era. The show explores the power of clothing, fashion photography and models to project images of beauty over the years, its curators said at a preview for the media. Its timeline begins in the golden age of sophisticated haute couture, which gave way to the youth-oriented 1960s, followed by the glamorous supermodel era that ended in grunge, the antithesis of glamour. That last shift shattered earlier conceptions of beauty, leaving today’s ideals more diverse and inclusive than ever before, said Kohle Yohannan, guest co-curator. "In the end we’re reassembling the pieces, like a post-modern jigsaw puzzle," he said, adding: "Women are more included in the visual culture today, all races, all ages. "I think this show will encourage women to take a bow, each and every type that they are, each and every race, each and every size," he said. Yohannan, an author and cultural historian, curated the show with Harold Koda, curator in charge of The Costume Institute. While fashionistas will likely savor every nuance, the fashion illiterate will recognize the aristocratic Dorian Leigh, Twiggy, Peggy Moffitt in a topless bathing suit by Rudi Gernreich, the athletic Cheryl Tiegs and Christie Brinkley, supermodels Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer, waifish Kate Moss and lithe Gisele Bundchen. Each era of fashion illustrates the social changes that were occurring at the time and helped to shape the idealized types of feminine beauty, Yohannan said. "It shows every bit of a map of social history as much as a style history," he said. The exhibit, "Models as Muse: Embodying Fashion," is on view from May 6 through August 9, 2009.

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So many names have been thrown about, over who would take the role as creative director of Halston ever since Marco Zanini left. Well, now the guessing is over, as Marios Schwab has been announced as Zanini’s successor and he will begin from 1st July. Schwab is a London-based designer and is of Austrian and Greek heritage. He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and launched his own label four years ago. His first collection for Halston will be make it’s debut next February during fashion week. Schwab was chosen out of the other names being whispered, as the brand felt he had shared ‘DNA’ with the styles of Halston. “He used a lot of jersey in the collection in a very modern way, the silhouettes were also very fluid, and we thought they had a very modern Halston interpretation. The DNA was very Halston-appropriate in terms of what we think Halston should be,” said Halston president Bonnie Takhar Schwab has big plans for the re-worked fashion label: “While Halston’s DNA is crucial to its future success, I very much wish to move the brand forward and make it relevant for today, simple, effortless pieces realized via modern [fabrics] and technology will play a large role in how I will redefine the brand. The clothes will echo the heritage but with a very distinctive, modern feel that is completely new and completely now.’’
 Schwab will be continuing his own label but will make the jump across the pond to New York. At Halston he will be heading up the ready-to-wear, shoes and accessories lines. This September, Halston will also unveil a Halston Heritage collection; a reworking of Halston’s most iconic silhouettes. This line will be of a lower price point, but don’t get too excited it’s not bargain basement. The prices will rival those of Marc by Marc Jacobs and DKNY.