It was her job to select pieces for the exhibition from thousands in their archive.
Local accessories are popular, while clothes are often sourced from markets (mtumba), or from vendors who select pieces from overseas.
In Europe alone, the Hilfiger company has 5,000 wholesale accounts, many of them small shops that carry select pieces.
More recently, in working with Ms. Brokaw to select pieces for the current exhibition, Mr. Christman said: "We looked at each piece with a major criterion in mind.
In the 1960's especially, when the Color Field market was booming, he helped the artists name works, select pieces for shows and install them.
The sale agreement states that Mr. Morton can select pieces from the resort's collection of musical memorabilia with a combined value of as much as $100,000.
The book features a wealth of new photography of historically important armor and other works of art from the Metropolitan Museum and select pieces from other institutions.
Mr. Davidson has two museum curators on retainer, who have helped him select pieces like Hunan pottery and the two 1888 jardinieres by Antonio Gaudí that will grace the entrance to the European Village.
"Their designers come either with them or without them, bring their floor plans, select pieces based on the size of the room, choose the colors and finishes, and then purchase enough merchandise to fill up a shipping container".
He said several of the artists were asked to select pieces from their work that reflected their view of the relationship between art and media, while others created new works for the display.
She worked mainly with Hayley Nichols, Universal's marketing coordinator, she said, to select pieces that were not on loan to other museums and represented different eras, artists, styles and processes.
