by Kiki Georgiou

MaxMara's camel cashmere double-breasted 101801 coat is a classic. Marcel Breuer's 1966 design for the now-old Whitney Museum of American Art on the Upper East Side's 75th street is a classic, too, in a different medium – one in which the new downtown Whitney, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, is currently jockeying for position.

Is it facile to compare a museum to a coat? That's what some would argue, but the spheres of art, architecture and fashion are overlapping all the more frequently, like a Venn diagram.

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Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/