The Brooklyn Museum’s new exhibit, “American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection” opens on May 7th. The show will feature fashion by French, Italian and American designers, including Elisa Schiaparelli, Jeanne Lanvin, Arnold Scaasi and Christian Dior

The eighty-five masterworks are from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some of the designs have never been on public view; others have not been displayed in more than twenty years.

A simultaneous exhibition, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first at The Metropolitan Museum to be drawn from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, will be on view at the Met from May 5 through August 15, 2010.