TY - BOOK AU - Koda, Harold AU - Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.) AU - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) TI - Extreme beauty: the body transformed. SN - 030010312-3 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Metropolitan Museum of Art KW - Beauty, Personal KW - sears KW - Costume N1 - Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from Dec. 6, 2001 through March 3, 2002. -Presents the extraordinary and diverse transformations that the body has endured in fashion through the the time in different cultutres of Africa,America,China Europe,Japan ,and Southeast Asia.It demonstrates that beauty has undergone subtle and radical manipulation of the body ,fitting to fashion The physical areas of the body has been emphasized and "de emphasized "to portray shifting physical ideal klikein the areas of the neck and shoulders,chest,waist,hips and feet ER -