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The Met unveils spring 2026 exhibition ‘Costume Art’, plots new Condé Nast galleries

New York’s The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) has unveiled the concept of The Costume Institute's upcoming spring 2026 exhibition, titled ‘Costume Art’. Due to open from May 10, 2026, running through January 10, 2027, the exhibition will “examine the centrality of the dressed body”, a press release revealed. With a primary focus on Western...

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Black Dandyism to take centre stage at Met Gala 2025

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...

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The Met to celebrate rebirth and renewal with 2024 exhibition

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,...

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The Met to dedicate its next exhibition to Karl Lagerfeld

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...

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The Met Museum present "In America: An Anthology of Fashion"

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...

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Nancy Chilton steps down from communications role at The Costume Institute

The Costume Institute is bidding adieu to its external relations officer. After nearly 15 years, Nancy Chilton is resigning. She will remain in her role until September 30, overseeing this year’s scaled-down Met Gala that will be closing out New York Fashion Week. Chilton plans on continuing to consult for projects for The Costume Institute, and...

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Video: The Met’s ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration’ exhibition

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...

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Video: Louis Vuitton shares a sneak peak of the Met's newest exhibition

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...

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Art of the In-Between: Rei Kawakubo at The Met

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...

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Karl Lagerfeld might get Met retrospective

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...

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The Costume Institute to exhibit items from prolific fashion collector

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."...

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The Met presents Camp: Notes on Fashion

The question that has been swirling around everyone's heads since this year's Met Gala theme "Camp: Notes on Fashion" was announced was what is camp? Contrary to popular belief, it has nothing to do with the actual act of going camping in the woods, because boy has there been questions about that. Webster defines Camp as both "something so...