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Match Point

Fashion and art, perfectly paired.

a colorful wavy rainbow stripe and black and white stripe crop top on a happy, excited woman matches a mural painted on a wall behind her

THERE WAS ONCE a time when museums discouraged photos, but thanks to camera phones and social media, the museum selfie is now ubiquitous. Michelle Satterlee, gallery director of the Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento, California, goes a step further. Whether she’s pairing a crop top to a mural (above) both by conceptual artist Jen Stark, or a Takashi Murakami and a Temperly London dress, Satterlee makes a perfect match with the art around her. Satterlee’s first match, in 2013, was a happy accident. Now she posts her cleverly devised outfits, along with photos from gallery goers and museum visitors, to her Instagram account, @dressedtomatch. “There is an abundance of art that is ‘easy’ to match—like a red painting with a red dress. What sets my favorite matches apart from the others is when the challenge is greatest,” Saterlee says.
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a Takashi Murakami and a Temperly London dress
Katy Perry Collection heels matched to an Ellsworth Kelly painting at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Katy Perry Collection heels matched to an Ellsworth Kelly painting at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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a Tommy x Gigi ensemble squaring up with a Mondrian-inspired mural
a Hemant & Nandita maxi dress matched with an Add Fuel mural
a Hemant & Nandita maxi dress matched with an Add Fuel mural