Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have revealed the theme for the next Met Gala and The Costume Institute’s associated spring 2025 exhibition, ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’. The gala will take place at its usual time slot, the first Monday of May, this time landing on May 5. Star-studded attendees of the event will be asked to...
10 Oct 2024
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled that its spring 2024 exhibition and the theme for the Costume Institute Benefit, better known as the Met Gala, will be ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’. The exhibit at The Met Fifth Avenue will run from May 10 until September 2, 2024, and will explore notions of rebirth and renewal,...
9 Nov 2023
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has confirmed that its spring 2023 exhibition will be dedicated to the late Karl Lagerfeld. The exhibition, entitled ‘Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty’ was announced at a press conference during Paris Fashion Week, and will showcase the late designer’s career by exploring his “creative...
30 Sept 2022
The Met Museum has opened part two of its Costume Institute Exhibit "In America: An Anthology of Fashion." The exhibit kicked off with the return of the Met Gala to its annual timeslot, the first Monday in May. While part one of the exhibit was held strictly in The Costume Institute, part two saw both updates to about half the displays in the...
19 May 2022
In this video, an extended preview of the Costume Institute’s 2020 exhibition, ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration’ is shown. The exhibition explores how clothing generates temporary associations that merge the past, present and future. Virginia Woolf serves as the "ghost narrator" of the exhibition. The exhibition will follow a century and a half...
4 Nov 2020
Louis Vuitton celebrates the 2020 exhibition of the Costume Institute titled "About Time: Fashion and Duration” presented at the Met in New York CIty. This year's exhibition is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by exploring fashion's reflection of the times since the founding of the iconic museum. Watch the...
30 Oct 2020
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between was the museum’s first monographic exhibition on a living designer since Yves Saint Laurent in 1983. “Season after season, collection after collection, she upends conventional notions of beauty and disrupts accepted characteristics of the fashionable body,” said curator Andrew Bolton. “Her...
30 Mar 2020
He might have been no fan of retrospectives himself, but Karl Lagerfeld might be getting his own at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022. Any homage to the legendary designer, who toward the end of his life was creative director of three labels including Chanel, Fendi, and his own eponymous label, is expected to be larger than life. Lagerfeld...
2 Aug 2019
Sandy Schreier might not be a household name, yet she is the subject of a forthcoming exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. A fashion historian and couture collector, Schreier will loan 80 pieces from her 165-piece collection to the museum for its showing of "In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection."...
24 Jul 2019
Lady Gaga, Serena Williams, Harry Styles and Gucci's star designer Alessandro Michele will co-chair next year's Met Gala with Anna Wintour, museum officials said Tuesday. Organized every year by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gala is a fundraising dinner for its Costume Institute. It is run by Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine,...
10 Oct 2018
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition will be Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, on view from May 10 through October 8, 2018 (preceded on May 7 by The Costume Institute Benefit). Presented at The Met Fifth Avenue in both the medieval galleries and the Anna Wintour...
8 Nov 2017
