It wasn’t so long ago that I was at The Metropolitan Museum of Art during a springtime trip to Manhattan, and it looks like I have a good reason to try to plan for another trip there next Spring, too.
In a recent press release The Met announced that its Costume Institute’s Spring 2009 exhibit will be The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion. The exhibit will run from May 6th through to August 9th, 2009 in the Tisch Galleries on the second floor of the Met (1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York).
From the press release:
“The exhibition [...] will explore the relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, and will focus on iconic fashion models of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras.”
” ‘The exhibition will examine a timeline of fashion over the past 100 years through the paradigm of the fashion model,’ said Harold Koda, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute.”
The exhibit will feature 70 fashion pieces by famous designers including Chanel, Marc Jacobs, and Prada. Images of models (such as Dorian Leigh, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, and Gisele Bundchen) by world-renowned photographers (such as Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon, and Bruce Weber) will be featured, along with video footage. The exhibit will kick off with a Gala Benefit on May 4th, 2009 with Honorary Chair Marc Jacobs. I expect that all the fashion and modelling elite will be in attendance.
I am so pleased to hear about this presentation, which will celebrate and explore the impact of models on fashion, and the interaction of the two, throughout history. As a model myself, I am especially pleased to see this kind of acknowledgement go to models. This is a big positive step in the right direction.
I hope I will be able to get there and bring you an amazing and informative post about this exciting exhibit!
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