EditorialCaroline Baumann, then director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, at a gala in New York on Oct. 18, 2018, wearing the dress she had bought for her wedding. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
EditorialCaroline Baumann, center, attends a Cooper Hewitt gala in New York on Oct. 18, 2018, in the same dress she wore to her wedding a month earlier. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)