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Speaker 2: Well that was because of Oscar, I mean Oscar Delaarento,

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Speaker 2: the Costume Institute? And you know, I had been aware

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Speaker 2: I wanted to try and help at that at that

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Speaker 2: and it just seemed it was a glamorous evening i'd

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Speaker 2: And so when an Oscar called me, because after Missus

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Speaker 2: of there was no leadership, or there wasn't as an

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Speaker 2: see if I could help. I mean, I really there

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Speaker 2: was not a grand plan. I just did it because

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Speaker 2: if Oscar called, you always said yes. And I really

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Speaker 2: was very naive. I think I didn't realize what I

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Speaker 2: obviously it came more recently. Became so close with Andrew

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Speaker 2: Bolton and so love work with him and Bill to

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Speaker 2: I can't pretend that there was a grand plan or

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Speaker 2: a grand strategy. It just grew. I mean, and it

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Speaker 2: has been twenty five years. It's like it just in

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Speaker 1: It's sort of interesting because that's the organic truth of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: think what makes it such a spectacular night is it's

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I don't think it gets

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Speaker 1: enough credit for, at least that I've read, is it's

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Speaker 1: it's an economic plus for the city. People come in.

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Speaker 1: It's all these sort of ansil instances.

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Speaker 2: What's really important to note is it costome Institute is

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Speaker 2: its own department within the museum, and everything that we

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Speaker 2: raise over the year, and particularly of course during that

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Speaker 2: one night, that is what supports it. It supports its

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Speaker 2: acquisitions budget, it's operating costs, the cost of the exhibition.

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Speaker 2: all from them itself. So that is sometimes an important

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Speaker 2: point that people don't necessarily realize. And of course raising

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Speaker 2: the money is so important, and putting a spotlight on

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Speaker 2: exhibitions and bringing a much broader language of fashion to

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Speaker 2: a broader public is incredibly important. But I do want

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Speaker 2: to say that it's supporting somebody like Andrew who of

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Speaker 2: first of all, he's so much fun, but he's brilliant,

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Speaker 2: and to watch how his mind starts to grapple with

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Speaker 2: When you see a creative vision start to unfold and

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