by Abby White

Five years ago, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts hosted the only U.S. presentation of the Victoria and Albert Museum's superb The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957, which chronicled a celebrated era of fashion marked by the debut of Christian Dior's groundbreaking "new look" and a subsequent burst of creativity and craftsmanship from designers such as Balenciaga, Balmain and Givenchy.

This summer, fashion will once again be the focus in the Frist's Ingram Gallery with another V&A stunner, Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945. The exhibit — the brainchild of Sonnet Stanfill, the V&A's curator of 20th century and contemporary fashion — traces the rise of the Italian fashion industry from post-World War II to present day.

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