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Gaga, Serena Williams, Styles and Gucci star to host Met gala

Lady Gaga, Serena Williams, Harry Styles and Gucci's star designer Alessandro Michele will co-chair next year's Met Gala with Anna Wintour, museum officials said Tuesday. Organized every year by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gala is a fundraising dinner for its Costume Institute. It is run by Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine,...

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Metropolitan Museum of Art to host exhibition about jewelry

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, has announced a new exhibition called “Jewelry: the body transformed”. Set to run from November 12 to February 24, 2019, at The Met Fifth Avenue, the exhibition will explore the meanings given to jewelry throughout History. ”A dazzling array of headdresses and ear ornaments, brooches and belts,...

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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...

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The Met's next exhibit to focus on fashion and Catholic imagination

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition will be Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, on view from May 10 through October 8, 2018 (preceded on May 7 by The Costume Institute Benefit). Presented at The Met Fifth Avenue in both the medieval galleries and the Anna Wintour...

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Rei Kawakubo gives us the art of in between

The first Monday in May marks the Superbowl of fashion: The Met Gala. Put on by Vogue's long reigning editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, a couple hundred celebrities and fashion industry insiders gather at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Manhattan's Upper East Side. This year's event was chaired by Wintour, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, and Tom...

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Manus x Machina extending hours for final weekend

The Met has already extended the Manus x Machina exhibit to run through Labor Day, but now, those who want to see the exhibit will have a few extra hours in the day to do so. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that they will be hosting extended hours for the final weekend of the exhibit. On Friday, September 2, and Saturday, September...

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Met delays Costume Institute exhibit

It doesn't exactly take a genius to figure out that creating those exhibits for The Met's Costume Institute is not an overnight job. "The First Monday in May" gave us insight to just how long, strenuous, and tedious this process can be. The Met has already announced their next exhibit "Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion," however, they have pushed...

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Met's Costume Institute to exhibit "Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion"

New York's Met Museum's Costume Institute aims to unravel the mysteries of fashion and its collecting process with a new exhibition opening this autumn. Titled "Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion," the idea to make fashion relatable will show a selection of landmark creations it acquired from its 35,000 strong archive. In order to demystify the...

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The Met extends Manus x Machina exhibit

The Met's "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" exhibit has been extended through Labor Day, Monday, September 5. This adds three weeks on from the original planned closing date of August 14, 2016. The exhibition, which was organized by The Costume Institute, opened to the public on May 5, 2016, and has drawn in over 350,000...

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The Met's Manus x Machina examines fashion and technology

After the less than flattering and not-so-on-theme looks at last week's Met Gala, one was left to only hope for better from the exhibit. It seems as though not a lot of people put thought into what Manus x Machina meant. Many thought it would be a take on futuristic style fashions, however this was not the Judy Jetson couture exhibit that a lot...

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The First Monday in May: The machine behind The Met Gala

It's the Super Bowl of fashion, an event so exclusive no more than 600 people get an invitation, and a night where every detail is mulled over down to the dimensions of the napkins. The Met Gala is one of the most holy nights on the fashion calendar. Those in the fashion industry view it the way some people view Easter Sunday. Every year, on the...

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Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style second most attended exhibit in Met's fall season

The Met's "Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style" exhibit had a lot to live up to coming off the heels of its record attendance breaking predecessor "China Through the Looking Glass." However, the exhibit, which celebrated the countess and socialite, held strong, attracting 194,820 visitors. The total visitor count makes the exhibit the second...