He Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Met) ‘relives’ more than 200 historic dresses and accessories at its annual grand exhibition fashionwhich highlights the use of technologies to allow visitors to appreciate the delicate objects with all five senses.
The exhibition, which was presented to the press this Monday and will open to the public on May 10, is titled ‘Sleeping beauties’in reference to those antique dresses so fragile that they cannot even be placed on mannequins, and that are displayed in display cases from which they must be observed as if it were a microscope.
This is the theme of the charity gala that is being held this Monday afternoon (Met Gala) and that finances the collection of the Met Fashion Institute, directed by Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, who invites hundreds of celebrities to this exclusive event with tickets at $75,000, according to Time.
The curator of the Fashion Institute, Andrew Bolton, explained that when a garment enters the museum’s collection its status changes. “irrevocably”going from being part of a person’s life experience to “an immobile work of art that can no longer be worn, heard, touched or smelled”.
Through technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), X-rays, visual animations or olfactory landscapes, “sensory access” to these garments and it is easy to enjoy them “as originally intended: with liveliness, dynamism and, ultimately, life”Bolton said.
An example of ‘sleeping beauty’ is the ‘Butterfly’ dress with chiffon silk cascades by Charles James, from 1955, of which the Met has two: one in impeccable condition and another badly damaged, and by placing them side by side he explains how their use and design contribute to their deterioration.
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The galleries are also distributed in three sections that explore natural themes based on land, air and water: in one of them, decorated like a garden full of floral hats, you can enjoy designs by sewing masters such as Cristóbal Balenciaga, Hubert de Givenchy or Elsa Schiaparelli.
As a curiosity, in that room there is a Loewe coat planted in the ground that “will gradually die during exposure”according to the Met.
Another attraction is a Jeanne Hallée dress from around 1913 with a ‘locked skirt’, which made it difficult for a woman to pass through, and which comes back to ‘life’ with a technological technique in which a woman is seen wearing it. and gradually turning into an insect.
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Source: Gestion
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