So the through-line is the natural world." Historical garments are displayed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's announcement of the Costume Institute's spring 2024 exhibition, "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" in New York on November 8, 2023.Īmong the oldest items: a tiny 17th century Elizabethan-era bodice embroidered with nature-themed elements like peas in a pod, and birds eating insects. "It's based a lot on nature, as you will see, and Andrew's vision goes from snakes to roses," quipped Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor and doyenne of American fashion who runs the gala each year and accompanied Bolton at the preview.īolton added: "I think nature is a broader metaphor for fashion - the fragility and ephemerality of fashion, but also the circular nature of fashion, the ideas of regeneration and rebirth. The themes of land, sea, and sky will organize the displays. The initial plan was to organize the show around certain masterworks, but curators then changed their strategy. It also means that the rattling sound of razor clams will accompany a dress by Alexander McQueen covered with stripped and varnished razor clam shells. This could mean scents will be wafting through a gallery, connected perhaps to the perfume used by the wearer. "It can't be worn, obviously, you don't see it in movement, you can't smell it, can't hear it, can't touch it." The idea was to "reawaken the sensorial aspect" of the clothing. "When a costume comes into the Met collection it changes irrevocably," Bolton explained. His aim, he says, was to bring garments to museum-goers via the various senses - not just sight but smell, and sound, too. "Fashion is such a living art form," Bolton said on Wednesday as he led a group of journalists into the bowels of the museum where the conservation lab lies and where the garments currently "slumber," in his words. He's chosen about 250 of them, spanning four centuries. 2023 Met Gala 100 photosĬurator Andrew Bolton, who masterminds all of the Met's blockbuster fashion exhibits, says he was looking for a way to literally breathe life into a collection of 33,000 pieces, many of which are never seen. They will lie in glass cases, like Sleeping Beauty herself. The stars of the Met's spring exhibit, to be launched by the celebrity-studded Met Gala on May 6, will be treasured garments from the vast collection at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - some too fragile to hang upright, lest they disintegrate. In this case, though, the title refers not to a princess with a pricked finger, but to the fabulous gown she might be wearing. The theme of the next Met Gala has been unveiled: "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." NEW YORK - It may be time to get out those fairytale ballgowns.
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