“The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled The Costume Institute’s spring 2024 exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. On view from May 10 through September 2, 2024, the exhibition features 220 garments and accessories that are connected visually through nature, which also serves as a metaphor for… Read More
“The Costume Institute’s fall 2023 exhibition, Women Dressing Women, celebrates the creativity and artistic legacy of women designers. Comprising approximately 80 objects that document the work of more than 70 makers, the exhibition traces a lineage of influential women-led fashion houses from the 20th century… Read More
“The Costume Institute’s 2022 spring exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion—the second of a two-part presentation—explores the foundations of American fashion through a series of sartorial displays featuring individual designers and dressmakers who worked in the United States from the 19th to the mid-late… Read More
“The Costume Institute’s In America is a two-part exhibition on view September 18, 2021, through September 5, 2022. Part One, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, in the Anna Wintour Costume Center, celebrates The Costume Institute’s 75th anniversary and establishes a modern vocabulary of fashion.… Read More
“The Costume Institute’s spring 2019 exhibition, Camp: Notes on Fashion explores the origins of camp’s exuberant aesthetic and how the sensibility evolved from a place of marginality to become an important influence on mainstream culture. Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay Notes on ‘Camp’ provides the framework for… Read More
The Costume Institute’s exhibition, Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion features significant acquisitions of the past 10 years. The show explores how the department has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality, including iconic works by designers who have changed the course of fashion history and advanced fashion… Read More
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