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Five "fashionable" museum exhibits for those who can't make it to New York Fashion Week

museum exhibits - smithsonian museum of american historyCan't make it to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City? Never fear - these fashionable museum exhibits will help you get your fix.

We've heard of a museum where you can touch the goods - but what about one where you can smell them? The Museum of Arts & Design in New York City has hired former New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr to head their "Center of Olfactory Art" as well as its inaugural exhibit, "The Art of Scent, 1889 - 2001," opening in November 2011.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is offering a retrospective of famed designer Jean Paul Gautier entitled "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk." It opens June 17.

New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is offering a more timely (at least for those sad about missing NYFW) look at big-time bling with, "Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels." It opens February 18.

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is paying tribute to Alexander McQueen with "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty." It opens May 4.

You don't have to wait to see Washington D.C.'s finest fashions on display. Simply visit the for the "First Ladies at the Smitsonian" exhibit, a permanent gallery that has long been one of the museum's most popular.

If you do make it to New York, look out for the Stylist Mobile Makeover Bus that will be parked outside the Lincoln Center tents.

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