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Opinion | Museum-worthy fashion’s long history

With all due respect to fashion’s dynamic duo, who have certainly created great stylish excitements, Thom Browne’s claim that Andrew Bolton elevated fashion to the status of museum-quality art at the Metropolitan Museum, as reported in the Oct. 27 Style article “The couple that made fashion pop,” is arguable.

Exhibit A is Diana Vreeland, who turned the museum’s industry-centric Costume Institute into a public-facing powerhouse. Exhibit B is Richard Martin and Harold Koda, who preceded Mr. Bolton at the institute and before that worked at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where I recall a show in the 1980s that was given a well-deserved rave review by eminent art critic John Russell.

Michael Gross, New York

The writer is the author of “Rogues’ Gallery,” a history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.