Indian.actresses.nude.photos.-by.kamapisachi

Look at the neckline. Look at the sleeve volume. Look at the proportion.

If you are wearing a busy, printed dress (the "art"), your accessories need to be the "white walls." Go for nude shoes, a simple leather bag, and minimal jewelry. Conversely, if you are wearing a stark, all-black outfit (the "white wall"), go for a massive, sculptural necklace or a pair of architecturally weird sunglasses (the "art"). You cannot touch the garments in a gallery (please don’t!), but you can see the texture. You see the difference between raw silk and duchess satin. You see the grit of leather versus the softness of cashmere. INDIAN.ACTRESSES.NUDE.PHOTOS.-BY.KAMAPISACHI

Look at your own reflection. Is it cluttered? A gallery teaches us that contrast creates focus. Look at the neckline

What is the best fashion exhibit you have ever seen? Tell me about it in the comments below. If you are wearing a busy, printed dress

Pull out the dress you are "saving for a special occasion." Put on the red lipstick. Wear the weird brooch.

Here is how to stop being a passive viewer and start using the "Fashion and Style Gallery" as the ultimate creative workshop for your own wardrobe. Fashion galleries do something street style cannot: they freeze a moment in time. You get to stand three inches away from a 1947 Dior "New Look" jacket and see the sheer volume of fabric required to create that wasp waist. You see the structural insanity of a 1980s Comme des Garçons.

We go to these halls to see the stitches, the draping, and the silhouette. But we leave with something else: