The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced a few hours ago that it will dedicate an exhibition to more than 70 influential women fashion designers from the early 20th century to the present.
The exhibition, entitled “Women dressing women” (Women who dress women), will be open to the public from December 7 to March 3, 2024, and wants to pay tribute to the creativity and legacy of dressmakers, as reported Met authorities.
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In total, the Met will exhibit more than 80 objects that “document” the work of designers and will include “iconic” pieces by Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Sarah Burton, Ann Demeulemeester, Elizabeth Hawes, Jeanne Lanvin, Germaine Émilie Krebs, Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli.
Coco Chanel, French designer and fashion icon. (PHOTO: AP).
Rei Kawakubo (Comme des Garçons) is also mentioned; Adèle Henriette Nigrin Fortuny, Gabriela Hearst, Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell, Pia Davis and Autumn Randolph (No Sesso), Madeleine Vionnet and Vivienne Westwood.
The Uruguayan designer Gabriela Hearst will be part of the sample. (Photo: EFE/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON) By: EFE Services
And among the contemporary designers included are Hillary Taymour (Collina Strada), Anifa Mveumba (Hanifa), Iris Van Herpen, Norma Kamali, Ester Manas, Jamie Okuma, Simone Rocha, Marine Serre, Yeohlee Teng and Isabel Toledo.
The exhibition, which will address the evolution of dressmakers from their anonymity to the creation of brands with their name, seeks to “offer a new interpretation of the traditional canon of fashion history” and examine how the sector has been a tool for social autonomy , financial and creative for women.
In addition, “new information will be discovered about understudied designers and houses that were inclusive during their activity, expanding the canon of Western fashion by highlighting unusual pieces from the collection of the Institute of Fashion (of the Met)”, some of them never exhibited before.
Miuccia Prada, one of the super powerful women of fashion. (Photo: MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP).
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Organized by The Costume Institute, the fashion space of the Met, the exhibition “Women Dressing Women” will show the work of Ann Lowe, who designed Jacqueline Bouvier’s wedding dress for her wedding to then-Senator John F. Kennedy in 1953 or Adèle Henriette Nigrin Fortuny, who was instrumental in designing the famous “Delphos” dress, presented in 1909.
“’Women Dressing Women’ will offer a new interpretation of the traditional canon of fashion history and will examine the ways in which the industry has served as a powerful vehicle for women’s social, financial and creative autonomy”, explain the organizers in a release.
Sarah Burton, creative director of Alexander McQueen, with Naomi Campbell. (Photo: ISABEL INFANTES / AFP)
It is, they add, an “intergenerational conversation that underlines ideas related to the social progress of women through fashion” and to highlight inclusive concepts such as “femininity, collaborative practices, a sustainable mentality and the plurality that has come to define the spirit of current fashion”.
The organizers intend to explore four key notions -anonymity, visibility, agency and absence/omission-, to highlight discoveries about identities and connections between women creators throughout history, and “offer new perspectives and better understanding of his work.
“This timely exhibition will invite visitors to reflect on the vital contribution of women to fashion since the early 20th century,” while continuing the museum’s work to “amplify historically underappreciated voices” and “celebrating the work of those that have become household names,” Max Hollein, the museum’s director, said in a statement.
The Karl Lagerfeld show, opened in May of this year at the Met in New York. (Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)By: REUTERS
The exhibition is the work of Mellissa Huber, Associate Curator at The Costume Institute and the guest curator is Karen Van Godtsenhoven.
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2023-08-17 13:21:31
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