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It’s another Thursday and the weekend is almost here! Hopefully it’s been amazing so far and everything is going the way you need it to go, but just in case you need a little “you” time, we have got a few cool things that you can do today if you don’t have a budget and you are interested in fashion. In today’s installment of Dollars & Sense we are exploring some of today’s most interesting fashion exhibits going on right now in New York City. You can take a look at it all below!

Visit The Impossible Conversations Exhibit:

The Met’s Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubias’s “Impossible Interviews” for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, the exhibition features orchestrated conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work. Iconic ensembles are presented with videos of simulated conversations between Schiaparelli and Prada directed by Baz Luhrmann, focusing on how both women explore similar themes in their work through very different approaches. You can view one such video below.

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Visit The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited Exhibit:

To celebrate the Little Black Jacket book, Chanel, in collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, will be putting on the The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited Exhibit in SoHo NY.

Karl Lagerfeld asked over 100 actors, models, musicians and muses to pose in Chanel’s iconic black jacket and although all of the finished photographs will be made into a book, the exhibit will showcase all of the pictures from the book in order to celebrate the launch.

The gallery is located at 18 Wooster Street in SoHo New York.

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Financial Tip Of The Day

Repair It Instead Of Throwing It Out

Don’t toss out a shirt because of a broken button – sew a new one on with some closely-matched thread. Don’t toss out pants because of a hole in them – put in a patch of some sort and save them for times when you’re working around the house. Simple sewing can be done by anyone – it just takes a few minutes and it saves a lot of money by keeping you from buying new clothes when you don’t really need to.