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As far back as high school where the uniforms girls and boys wore created a visual balance between the sexes, to todays television personalities like Greta Van Susteren, Rachel Maddow, Christiane Amanpour and Maria Bartiromo whose business suit uniform exemplifies equality in professional dress, clothing has the power to redirect attention from sex to substance

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The exhibit reflects the intergenerational dialogue between these designers in historical perspective and the talented women who worked with them from a contemporary point of view, explains Karen Van Godtsenhoven, a co-curator of the exhibition