A flurry of colors. A rainbow of hues. An ode to the rose ... What else impacts the exposure of Isaac Mizrahi, the Jewish Museum until August 7, is effusive adoption by the designer of orange, green grass, blue-green and of course pink. Before arriving to the clothes, drawings or videos detailing the success of Mizrahi, who most will remember the Unzipped documentary, visitors are presented to the almost fanatical obsession designer to fix the wool, silk and cotton all possible shades rainbow. Samples of their tissues, which he keeps carefully in small boxes, are affixed to the walls of the exhibition entrance gallery. The feeling should be like that of entering a kaleidoscope of a room size. The inevitable answer is more emotional than intellectual - colors make you smile. But does this is reason enough for a museum mount the "Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruli History" (Issac Mizrahi: a story without rules)? Mizrahi makes work an art?(year 12 formal dresses)

The Mizrahi show coincides with a new documentary about a fashion show overwhelming and the preparation of a nearby facility with the subject clothes. The three events have arguments in favor of adoption of the fashion museum: fashion is beautiful; It has cultural significance; It is an explosion of creative experimentation.

But is it art? The answer is "maybe." And no matter.

Mizrahi started his dressmaker career in 1987 when it launched the brand with his name and began to delight audiences with an avalanche of innovations that only now, many years later, show how much he was prescient. Merged his extravagant creations, detail, high level, the popular T-shirts and sweaters created for Target. Today it is common sophisticated designers create specific collections for the mass market. But when Mizrahi did this practice was seen as dangerous and can empty the main collection of the designer and get it out of the exclusive circle of fashion. Mizrahi, however, widened the circle.

Before Miguel Adrover make mattresses cloths dresses discarded and Vetements establish that T-shirts with the logo of DHL were chic, Mizrahi already inspired drawings protectors of freight elevators panels to make silk evening gowns. He also faced politically correct with your dress inspired by indigenous totems - a postmodern and traditional celebration of multiculturalism today certainly provoke outrage cries.

The exhibition also has prom dresses of a bright "blue lumberjack" and the dress "baby bjorn" - evening gown in red satin that comes with a "kangaroo" device to carry baby. Some costumes are just comical, others elegantly pragmatists. Mostly, the exhibition celebrates the pleasure of the clothes, and that is enough to justify the route through the various galleries punctuated by charming sketches of Mizrahi and fragments of his work taken from movies and television.

Maybe it enough. If the "Puppy" by Jeff Koons - a giant terrier dog made of flowers that most evokes the joy that seriousness - could land at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, there would be no reason why the work of Mizrahi not won museum status.(backless formal dresses)

The theme of "The First Monday in May" (First Monday of May) is the annual show of The Costume Institute (Institute of Fashion) of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET). There are stunningly beautiful accessories, but the essence of the film, which opened last week, is the physical work and mental strength required to assemble "China: Through the Looking Glass" (China view binoculars), which set a new standard in number of visitors in one of the museum fashion exhibitions. The heart of the film is the curator Andrew Bolton, who lovingly and obsessively takes care of clothes and sails through the cultural and political traps the museum. The film, intellectually compelling, explores the uncomfortable museum's relationship with fashion. But instead of the obsessive discussion about whether fashion is art, he prefers to focus on the power of fashion to join two disparate cultures - China and the West.

Bolton will again position the fashion in a broader context with the next exhibition "Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology" (A hand against the machine: fashion in the era of technology), which will be open to the public on Thursday , 5. the show explores the tension between handmade accessories and industrialized. What are the best?

Museums have come to love fashion exhibitions. They call crowds, attracted by the beauty of the clothes and their emotional charge. After all, not only admire and discuss fashion: we use. "Manus x Machina" will test how the public reacts to a show that questions the importance of the human touch in making clothes that, in turn, help us to define us.

Fashion may - or may not - be art. But it is also perhaps a too-limited characterization.