'POIRET: KING OF FASHION' RULES NEW YORK; THE MET'S COSTUME INSTITUTE LAUNCHES ITS LATEST EXHIBITION AND THROWS THE "PARTY OF THE YEAR" TO CELEBRATE.(Paul Poiret's work exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute)

Daily News Record, May, 2007 by Gavenas, Marilise

Byline: Marilise Gavenas

NEW YORK - Somewhere, somehow, Paul Poiret must be in his glory.

As scores of recent newspaper and magazine stories have pointed out, the early 20th-century couturier long outlived his label's vogue, dying broke and bitter in 1944.

But last week he was back lording it over the beau monde: Directly as the subject of the latest exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and indirectly as the theme of the annual, celebrity-studded glam slam inevitably referred to as "the Party of the Year." Both events were staged ...