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no-rules britannia! The Costume Institute's latest blockbuster places the work of Britain's maverick designers-and the costumes that inspired them-in the Metropolitan's splendid English rooms.

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Byline: Hamish Bowles

AngloMania," the Costume Institute exhibition that opens this month (May 1 through September 4) in the En_glish period rooms of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, places historical costume alongside the recent work of Britain's most anarchic contemporary fashion designers. Curator Andrew Bolton describes it as a study in "tradition and transgression." In some ways it is intended to provide a counterpoint to 2004's "Dangerous Liaisons," the blockbuster that saw the exquisite eighteenth-century rooms of the Wrightsman Galleries come vividly to life with a series of frolicking costumed vignettes designed to conjure the risque French engravings of ...

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