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The Met Museum's latest exhibition, sponsored by Louis Vuitton, traces 150 years of fashion

The latest exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute traces a century and a half of fashion. About Time: Fashion and Duration, will be on show until February 7th, after a five month delayed opening from May due to the coronavirus. Tracing fashion from 1870 to the present, the exhibition employs Henri Bergson’s concept of...

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Met Gala announces 2020 exhibition theme, About Time: Fashion and Duration

The Met Gala, the annual fundraising event for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City, has announced the theme of its 2020 exhibition, About Time: Fashion and Duration. On show from May to September, the exhibition will officially be inaugurated by the high octane celebrity-attended Gala. Arguably New...

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What to expect from the MET Gala and ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion’

“Camp: Notes on Fashion”, this year’s theme for the MET Gala and accompanying exhibition, has many people scratching their heads. What does Camp mean? Even Anna Wintour admitted on a Vogue.com video that the theme “has created a little bit of confusion”. If you, too, are not sure what to expect from tonight’s party and the exhibition opening at...

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Fashion embraces technology at the Met Gala

The Met Gala's annual red carpet of celebrities and high octane fashion is a guilty pleasure to see, but so too is its excellently-curated exhibition. Currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute is Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, where over 120 pieces of haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion are...

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Alexander Mcqueen:Savage Beauty to stay open

Due to such extreme demand, the Alexander Mcqueen: Savage Beauty exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York will now stay open for a further week. The display, which saw a staggering 150,000 visitors on its opening day, will now close on August 7th. The show features approximately 100 garments and 70 accessories from Mcqueen’s archive and...

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Met Ball gala in pictures

The Met Ball organised by Anna Wintour drew a host of fashion celebrities to celebrate the work of McQueen. The gala is America's biggest night on the fashion calendar, and with the late, great fashion designer Alexander McQueen as a theme for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, red carpet expectations were very high. Gwyneth...

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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating the work of McQueen with the exhibition: "Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty." On Monday the opening gala was hosted by Anna Wintour, the US Vogue editor and Met fund-raiser, actress Salma Hayek and her husband, François-Henri Pinault, the owner of the McQueen brand. Colin Firth, the star of “The...