In the middle of Fashion Week, the Metropolitan Museum in New York on Tuesday unveiled a taste of its great anthology on American fashion, expected in May at the time of its famous annual gala.
In front of the editor-in-chief of Vogue and high priestess of fashion Anna Wintour, whose name the Costume Institute of the “Met” now bears, the media were able to discover some of the dresses among the hundred outfits, feminine and masculine , which will tell a story of American fashion in the 19th and 20th centuries, from the Brooks Brothers brand to Oscar de la Renta.
The exhibition, in the American wing of the museum, will bring dresses and ensembles into dialogue with “cinematic vignettes”, or “freeze frames”, designed by eight filmmakers, including Sofia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Regina King, Chloé Zhao and Tom Ford, director and fashion designer.
This is the second, larger part of an exhibition whose first chapter opened in September with a “lexicon” telling the story of contemporary American fashion through a vocabulary of emotions, each outfit having a word.
According to the chief curator of the “Costume Institute”, Andrew Bolton, “the second part explores the foundations of American fashion”, where “the lexicon explores (its) new language”.
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The exhibition does not open to the public until May 7, but the Metropolitan Museum has taken the opportunity of New York Fashion Week “Fall-Winter 2022”, which ends on Wednesday, to give a taste of it.
If the Covid no longer interferes with its plans, the Met will take the opportunity to find its annual gala, a social New York meeting par excellence under the leadership of Anna Wintour. The evening, an opportunity for the great designers to dress the stars, is normally held on the first Monday of May, but it had to be canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
To catch up, a Met Gala, which is used to finance the Museum’s Costume Institute, was held in September, with the famous “Tax the Rich” dress worn by the figure of the left wing of the Democratic party Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or a Kim Kardashian completely covered in black, face included.
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