At The Frick Collection, “Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie Antoinette” examines late-18th-century French style through printed fashion images that circulated long before modern magazines. These plates document how clothing, etiquette, and social rank were made legible in public, and how trends traveled between court and city. Shown in New York, the exhibition places European print culture in dialogue with a museum better known for painting and interiors, a useful reminder that fashion history often survives as mass media rather than luxury objects.