Atlanta Gets C.Z. Guest, Forty Looks Deep

SCAD FASH in Atlanta is now home to a showing of C.Z. Guest's wardrobe, and the scale of it is the headline. More than forty full outfits are on view, not a sleeve here and a hat there but complete looks, head to hem. Most of them came by way of her daughter, Cornelia, who gave the bulk of the clothes to the museum. That matters for anyone who takes archives seriously, because a family gift usually means the pieces arrive together, intact and with their story attached. For a reader standing in those galleries, the pleasure is in walking a single woman's taste at full length rather than in fragments. A fashion museum inside an art and design college is exactly the right room for it, where students and visitors can study the cut as closely as the glamour. Atlanta, for the moment, holds one of the more generous looks at an American style icon you will find anywhere in the country.

With reporting from WWD.