"This is not a retrospective, but my own look at the costume collections of the Mus?e des Arts D?coratifs, from which I chose pieces from all eras, some never before exhibited. I chose those that were most inspiring, those that best told the story of fashion that I would have wanted to tell if I were the museum curator that I intended to be when I was a student. "My twenty years in the fashion business are another way of telling this story,...