After all, it is called “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” And those princess costumes have been very influential.
But while the show was, indeed, partly inspired by a hot button cultural moment, it’s not a fantasy one.
Specifically, the ephemeral nature of … well, nature.
And how fashion captures that literally, in the form of garments inspired by and decorated with flora and fauna, and conceptually, in its endless cycle of in and out, its potential to degrade.
Think of it as a show devoted to unsustainable fashion, one that could function as a requiem, a warning sign and a reminder of the fundamental importance of regeneration.
Persons:
Barbie
Organizations:
Marvel, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art