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Catholic 'heavenly' fashion breaks NY Met record

It was the ambitious New York exhibition that brought together haute couture and Vatican treasures, treading delicately so as to keep the Catholic Church on side, and it appears to have paid off. The Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday that 1.66 million visitors flocked to its 2018 Costume Institute show, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the...

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The soon-to-close Met Heavenly Bodies exhibit visited by 1.3 million

Set to conclude in just over a week, the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has had a record-breaking number of visitors. The display, which is currently featured at main museum on Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters location, has reportedly had over 1.3 million visitors while 200,000...

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Tiaras but few tantrums at New York 'Heavenly Bodies'

Think embroidered papal mantles inspiring a John Galliano masterpiece for Dior, Joan of Arc armor refashioned as sexualized corsetry by Jean Paul Gaultier or the monk habit re-styled as eveningwear by Valentino. There are plenty of tiaras, but few tantrums at New York's hottest museum ticket this spring, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the...

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The Met’s exhibition on catholicism and fashion opens on May 10th

The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring exhibition, “Heavenly Bodies: fashion and the Catholic imagination”, opens this Thursday, May 10th. The exhibition, which will examine fashion’s relationship with the devotional practices and traditions of catholicism, will remain on view until October 8th. Papal robes and...