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New Met Gala fashion exhibit seeks to 'reclaim' body types that art history has ignored
NEW YORK -- One of the first sights we see in “Costume Art,” the new fashion exhibit to be launched at Monday’s Met Gala, is a glittering column gown by Dolce & Gabbana, its shimmering gold sequins surrounding an image of Aphrodite.The Greek goddess stands on a pedestal, holding a golden apple bestowed on her for her beauty — a classic ideal of beauty as old as, well, ancient Greece.But the idea of “Costume Art,” which examines the dressed body through centuries of art history, is not to celebrate the classical form. It is rather, says Andrew Bolton, longtime curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, to use that form as a launch pad.“Now, we go through and reclaim the body,” he says, leading a reporter through the gleaming new Conde M. Nast galleries that the show will inaugurate.The corpulent body. The disabled body. The pregnant body. The aging body. The new show, which gala guests will view before it opens to the public May 10, is the most consciously body-positive show the museum has attempted. Perhaps its most prominent feature is a group of new mannequins, based on real people with a wide variety of body types.
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Fashion’s Faustian pact: the high cost of Jeff Bezos’s Met Gala patronage
EDITOR’S NOTE: CNN FlashDoc’s new documentary “Behind the Bob: Vogue’s Anna Wintour,” explores Wintour’s decades-long reign as a defining force in global fashion and media. Watch tonight at 8pm EST on CNN, or stream right now on the CNN app. The annual Met Gala, which takes place this year on Monday, May 4, is always a lightning rod for controversy. Was Karl Lagerfeld too problematic to serve as a 2023 theme? Was TikTok, which had just been deemed a national security threat by the US government, an appropriate sponsor for 2024’s gala? And just how small can designers make Kim Kardashian’s waist? (This one comes up almost yearly.) But the 2026 gala, celebrating the accompanying exhibition, “Costume Art,” that gathers examples of clothed bodies from across the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curatorial departments, has proven especially contentious. Elected amid growing public anxiety over income inequality, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced he will skip the A-list gathering. “My focus is also on affordability and making the most expensive city in the United States affordable, and that’s what I’m looking to spend a lot of my time focused on,” he told news site Hell Gate last month. Then there is
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‘If you know, you know’: I styled the Devil Wears Prada 2 press premiere entirely from one designer resale site
Florals for spring? If you’ve seen The Devil Wears Prada, you already know that this isn’t groundbreaking. So when Disney asked me to style the New York press junket for The Devil Wears Prada 2, where journalists would be interviewing Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and other cast members from the film, I knew I had to put my best stiletto-heeled foot forward.My sartorial challenge: I needed to style a real-life version of the Runway closet, the wardrobe where Hathaway’s character, the ambitious but fashionably challenged Andy Sachs, received a makeover. Journalists would be trying on the clothes and wearing them to interview Streep and Hathaway. So how do you dress an event for arguably one of the most fashion-forward films of our generation?I’ve worked as a professional stylist for two decades – like Andy, I started in the fashion industry as an intern in New York City. When the original film came out, I related to Andy and her resourcefulness: I once assembled an impromptu eyeglasses chain from a clear rubber band and necklace because a photographer needed it in 30 minutes. Another time, I fixed a model’s heel with Shoe Goo right before she stepped in front of camera.
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New Met Gala fashion exhibit seeks to 'reclaim' body types that art history has ignored
NEW YORK -- One of the first sights we see in “Costume Art,” the new fashion exhibit to be launched at Monday’s Met Gala, is a glittering column gown by Dolce & Gabbana, its shimmering gold sequins surrounding an image of Aphrodite.The Greek goddess stands on a pedestal, holding a golden apple bestowed on her for her beauty — a classic ideal of beauty as old as, well, ancient Greece.But the idea of “Costume Art,” which examines the dressed body through centuries of art history, is not to celebrate the classical form. It is rather, says Andrew Bolton, longtime curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, to use that form as a launch pad.“Now, we go through and reclaim the body,” he says, leading a reporter through the gleaming new Conde M. Nast galleries that the show will inaugurate.The corpulent body. The disabled body. The pregnant body. The aging body. The new show, which gala guests will view before it opens to the public May 10, is the most consciously body-positive show the museum has attempted. Perhaps its most prominent feature is a group of new mannequins, based on real people with a wide variety of body types.
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Fashion’s Faustian pact: the high cost of Jeff Bezos’s Met Gala patronage
EDITOR’S NOTE: CNN FlashDoc’s new documentary “Behind the Bob: Vogue’s Anna Wintour,” explores Wintour’s decades-long reign as a defining force in global fashion and media. Watch tonight at 8pm EST on CNN, or stream right now on the CNN app. The annual Met Gala, which takes place this year on Monday, May 4, is always a lightning rod for controversy. Was Karl Lagerfeld too problematic to serve as a 2023 theme? Was TikTok, which had just been deemed a national security threat by the US government, an appropriate sponsor for 2024’s gala? And just how small can designers make Kim Kardashian’s waist? (This one comes up almost yearly.) But the 2026 gala, celebrating the accompanying exhibition, “Costume Art,” that gathers examples of clothed bodies from across the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curatorial departments, has proven especially contentious. Elected amid growing public anxiety over income inequality, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced he will skip the A-list gathering. “My focus is also on affordability and making the most expensive city in the United States affordable, and that’s what I’m looking to spend a lot of my time focused on,” he told news site Hell Gate last month. Then there is
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‘If you know, you know’: I styled the Devil Wears Prada 2 press premiere entirely from one designer resale site
Florals for spring? If you’ve seen The Devil Wears Prada, you already know that this isn’t groundbreaking. So when Disney asked me to style the New York press junket for The Devil Wears Prada 2, where journalists would be interviewing Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and other cast members from the film, I knew I had to put my best stiletto-heeled foot forward.My sartorial challenge: I needed to style a real-life version of the Runway closet, the wardrobe where Hathaway’s character, the ambitious but fashionably challenged Andy Sachs, received a makeover. Journalists would be trying on the clothes and wearing them to interview Streep and Hathaway. So how do you dress an event for arguably one of the most fashion-forward films of our generation?I’ve worked as a professional stylist for two decades – like Andy, I started in the fashion industry as an intern in New York City. When the original film came out, I related to Andy and her resourcefulness: I once assembled an impromptu eyeglasses chain from a clear rubber band and necklace because a photographer needed it in 30 minutes. Another time, I fixed a model’s heel with Shoe Goo right before she stepped in front of camera.
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