C.Z. Guest Gets the Museum Treatment This October

C.Z. Guest is the subject of a new museum exhibition, and the clothes are its centerpiece. *C.Z. Guest: Portrait of an American Style Icon* opens at SCAD FASH on October 15, with upward of forty complete looks on view. That's forty dressed figures, each one standing in for a single decision about how to appear in the world. A show built on that many ensembles asks for a slow walk rather than a quick glance, and the people who'll get the most out of it are the ones who notice a hemline, a collar or the way a jacket is cut. The title places her firmly in the American tradition of taste. That's a fitting thing to read about in the middle of October, when the island is starting to think about the season again and the closets are being opened. Anyone who dresses with intention will want to mark the date.

With reporting from Town & Country.