It's about time that the glory of designs by women is recognized.

When it was announced that Sarah Burton was leaving Alexander McQueen, the house she had nurtured to new gorgeousness after the suicide of its founder, it set off a wave of angst in the fashion world. The appointment of McGirr meant that every designer in the stable of Kering would be a white man. It only got worse when three more white men, all Italians, were named to the top jobs at Moschino, Tod's and Rochas. Weren't we supposed to have moved on? We got the corrective from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.