The designer called the show "Insider Outsider" because lining materials balanced the tailoring fabrics and parkas melted into ponchos.
In fact, every so often, you can feel Collins hiding behind him, feeding him those sharply observant outsider's lines.
He is also positioning himself as an outsider, repeating the line that his four main opponents in the primary were "career politicians".
Similarly, Mr. Bush's styling of himself as an outsider, while in line with three of the last four presidents -- Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, governors all -- could be hard for him to carry off.
Mr. Grannis, whose legendary images captured the surf culture of the 1960s and '70s, died in February, but Scott Sternberg, the designer of Band of Outsiders, the Los Angeles line known for its twisty take on schoolboy prep, is stoked on the photographs.
And the first lady of the United States, arguably the most high-profile fashion fan in the country, has been spotted in the Boy by Band of Outsiders women's line not once but twice this year.
Some works in the exhibition blur the line between outsider and insider.
As before, the fair suggests that the line between outsider and insider art becomes blurrier with each passing year.
Since the museum was "top of the line for outsider art," he said, he had no objections to his unorthodox placement: "As long as I was within the confines of that museum, I made it!" (His pieces were later moved to the gift shop; more than a dozen have been sold, he said).
Because the museum is "top of the line for outsider art," he said, he had no objections to his unorthodox placement: "As long as I was within the confines of that museum, I made it!" (His pieces were later moved to the gift shop; more than a dozen have sold).
