Hey there, Neanderthal. Being able to read the labels on your champagne bottles does not count as culture.

Which means you could use some civilizing. Start at Balenciaga and His Legacy, an exhibit that opens today at SMU’s Meadows Museum.

With gorgeous apparel — such as a velvet pillbox hat and a lace baby-doll dress — on display, this beautiful tribute is a chance for you to get up close and personal with celebrated Spanish visionary Cristóbal Balenciaga.

And since the show draws from the Texas Fashion Collection in Denton, you’ll get to admire the elegant eveningwear worn by local stars like oil heiress-slash-socialite Claudia Heard de Osborne and Neiman Marcus buyer Bert de Winter. And you just might learn to be the toast of the town.

Instead of being the one always making them.

Meadows Museum, at SMU, 5900 Bishop Boulevard (214-768-2516 or meadowsmuseumdallas.org).