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Fashion's past and present collide in the Met's newest exhibition

Whether by repetition, rupture or reinvention, fashion has always maintained a complex relationship to time, a link New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is exploring in a new exhibition opening Thursday. The show, delayed for months by the pandemic, was also tweaked last minute to take into account the Black Lives Matter movement that...

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Video: "About Time: Fashion and Duration" the Met's 2020 exhibition

The 'About Time: Fashion and Duration' exhibition would take place in 2020 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The pandemic threw a spanner in the works. The Gala had to be cancelled, but an online event took place on the evening of May 4th, through Vogue’s YouTube channel. Because people cannot physically take a look at the...

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Metropolitan Museum announces spring 2020 Costume Institute exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host "About Time: Fashion and Duration" for its annual spring Costume Institute exhibition. On view from May 7, 2020 through September 7, the show will also aid in the museum's ongoing celebration of its 150th anniversary, as it illustrates 150 years of fashion history. “This exhibition will consider the...

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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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Catholic 'fashion' items to be displayed in New York

The Vatican will lend around 40 ecclesiastical works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for an exhibition focusing on the Catholic religion's impact on fashion, organisers said on Monday. Items such as papal rings and crowns worn by various popes from the 18th and 19th centuries will go on display, including precious treasures from...