"Intricate and appealing, curious and uncanny, miniature works of art exert surprising power. Over thousands of years and across cultures, artists and artisans have created small objects for many purposes: tiny gold amulets of ancient Egyptian gods to protect the wearer, portable European medieval shrines made of precious materials to hold the relics of saints, English and American miniature painted portraits to keep loved ones close, Dutch dollhouse...

The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born of youth rebellion in the streets, and trickled up into the top fashion houses. Defying easy definition, hippie fashion expressed a personal style with clothing that went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles.