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☆ At the Met, Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up in the Chemistry Lab
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute announced its 2024 spring blockbuster show would be called “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” a lot of head-scratching ensued. Its curators seek to “reawaken” these items with a dash of technology and a soupçon of sensory overload: touch, smell and sound. Imagine the ghostly rustling of silk taffeta, the clinking of giant paillettes, brought back to life by scientists and engineers. It’s not your usual fashion exhibit. Vanessa Friedman, chief fashion critic, and Jason Farago, critic at large, debated the result.

Persons: frocks, It’s, Vanessa Friedman, Jason Farago Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume Institute

☆ How Much Money Did This Year’s Met Gala Raise?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the Met Gala on Monday, a throng of photographers fought to capture Zendaya and Kim Kardashian parading couture gowns down the red (technically, mouthwash-green) carpet. This year’s event raised about $26 million for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, according to a spokeswoman. That’s a $4 million increase over last year’s total, and more than double what the event raised a decade ago, in 2014. The most recent fall gala for the New York City Ballet raised just short of $4 million, and the American Museum of Natural History’s gala brought in $2.5 million. Even The Met’s other events do not compare: Its Art & Artists Gala raised $4.4 million last year.

Persons: Zendaya, Kim Kardashian, That’s, ”, Rachel Feinberg, “ Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume, New York City Ballet, American Museum, Natural, Elmhurst Hospital Locations: New York City, Queens

☆ The Met Gala, in Photos
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Every Gala has a dress code, which is tethered to the exhibition. All of which makes it easy to forget this is actually an important fund-raiser for one of New York’s cultural pillars: the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. It was once a free-standing museum, but when it merged with the Met in 1946, part of the deal was that the Costume Institute would have to pay for itself. Hence the gala, which raises all the funds for the institute’s operating budget. The Costume Institute itself has historically been housed in the museum’s basement — a clear statement about its status at the museum.

Persons: you’ve, —, Ballard, Katy Perry, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, ” scrawled, Kandinsky Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume, Met, Costume Locations: East Coast, Alexandria

☆ Cocktail Hour at the Met Gala: What Comes After the Carpet
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Katie Van Syckle | Landon Nordeman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Up the carpeted stairs, past the tuxedoed photographers, Anna Wintour stood at the top of the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit. “Your royal highnesses,” Baz Luhrmann, the Australian film director, said as he approached Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez and Chris Hemsworth, who were standing in a receiving line with Ms. Wintour. The space had been transformed by greenery, filled with string musicians and dancers, creating a “Midsummer Night’s” dreamscape just off Fifth Avenue. “How is it out there?” Ms. Wintour said, adding, “You look incredible.”One by one, the stratospherically famous faces that captivate imaginations worldwide walked carefully up the stairs and stopped to talk to the row of co-chairs. (Zendaya, the fifth co-chair, did not make it to the perch.)

Persons: Anna Wintour, ” Baz Luhrmann, Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth, Wintour, dreamscape, Ms Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume Institute Locations: Australian

☆ Roberto Cavalli, a Life Out Loud
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | Jacob Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His animal prints did not always originate from nature but from his own imagination, chimeras of exotic skins that telegraphed excess, sex and aspiration. If Gianni Versace was the id of Italian fashion, Mr. Cavalli made it roar, hitting mass saturation in the late nineties as an antidote to the minimalism of Jil Sander and Helmut Lang. He stepped into the vacuum created by the murder of Mr. Versace in 1997, was further buoyed by the frothy stock market, and soon, Paris Hilton was wearing him. So was Candace Bushnell, creator of “Sex and the City.” Victoria Beckham was a fan during her Posh Spice era. Little wonder he was the main sponsor of the 2004 show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute: “Wild: Fashion Untamed” — or that Ben Stiller wore Mr. Cavalli’s designs for “Zoolander,” Mr. Stiller’s fashion satire.

Persons: Roberto Cavalli, Tropez, Gianni Versace, Cavalli, Jil Sander, Helmut Lang, Versace, Paris Hilton, Candace Bushnell, Victoria Beckham, Ben Stiller, “, Mr Organizations: City, Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume Locations: Italian, Paris

☆ Women Dressing Women, in Jewelry
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Kathleen Beckett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

More than 70 examples of fashions created by women for women are showcased in the exhibition “Women Dressing Women” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City (through March 3). How are their creations different from those of male designers? “Gender is such a personal aspect of identity that influences everyone differently,” Mellissa Huber, the institute’s associate curator and the co-curator of the show, wrote in an email. She noted that while many women “might not wish their work to be perceived through the lens of gender, for some it can be a really important aspect of their professional identity.”The New York Times asked the same question of several female jewelry designers and experts. Here are their thoughts on what it means to be women dressing women — in jewelry.

Persons: ” Mellissa Huber, “ Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s, New York Times Locations: New York City

☆ The Met Gala announces the 2024 theme ‘Sleeping Beauties’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has revealed details of its 2024 spring exhibition, which serves as the inspiration for the theme of the accompanying Met Gala. “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” will be presented at the Costume Institute in New York from May 10 through September 2, 2024, pulling rare “masterworks” from the Institute’s archive for museumgoers to experience in a new, imaginative way, according to a press release. Nick Knight/Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art“When an item of clothing enters our collection, its status is changed irrevocably. Hippolyte Petit/BFA.com; Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of ArtGarments too fragile to be dressed on mannequins will be displayed instead as the titular “sleeping beauties,” appearing in coffin-like glass displays with microscopes available to observe their deterioration up close, according to the Institute. But how will celebrities interpret a more abstract, nuanced theme on the Met Gala’s red carpet — especially one that focuses on garments that one can no longer wear?

Persons: Karl Lagerfeld’s, Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Charles Frederick Worth, Nick Knight, ”, Andrew Bolton, Hippolyte Petit, Karolina Kurkova’s Marchesa, Blake, Ralph Lauren Organizations: CNN, Metropolitan Museum, Art’s, Costume Institute, Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dior's, Metropolitan Museum of, Institute Locations: New York, Worth

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