“Fashion is very much an art form not in spite of the body, but because of it,” says Andrew Bolton, OBE, curator in charge of the Costume Institute. And this year’s exhibition, “Costume Art,” seeks not just to address this tantalizingly complex issue, but to explore it in all its many facets. The central thesis is as simple as it is thrilling: pair existing artworks with corresponding garments or accessories and let your synapses fire. The very layout of the show—broken into sections that move from Biblical nudity to the au courant idea of body diversity to the ways in which we’ve long used clothes not merely to adorn but to subvert and distort the body—indicates just how richly drawn this subject is and why it’s mesmerized artists since time immemorial.
Sinéad Burke, CEO of Tilting the Lens, emphasizes how this exhibit highlights bodies that have traditionally been overlooked, and as someone with a physical disability, she is among those featured. Her body has been memorialized in the exhibition as a custom mannequin, alongside model and musician Aariana Rose Philip, transforming their presence into a lasting part of the narrative around representation, fashion, and identity.
Additionally, this exhibition will be the first in the costume department’s new home, the Conde M. Nast Galleries. Once relegated to a modest 4,500-square-foot space in the museum’s basement, the department will now take flight in a grand, 12,000-square-foot display room on the ground floor, just off the central Great Hall. It is, says Max Hollein, the museum’s director, a symbol of how important clothing has become to The Met’s mission in exploring the many facets of art in the modern age. “We collect paintings, sculptures, textiles, arms and armor, but especially all the fashion,” he says. “And we want to make sure that it’s understood that fashion is a fantastic form of art.”
Featuring testimonials from Misty Copeland, Alex Consani, Gwendoline Christie, Aimee Mullins, Sinéad Burke, Aariana Rose Philip and more.
Director: Nina Ljeti
Directors of Photography: Michael Lopez, Henry Gill
Editor: Evan Allan
Senior Producer: Bety Dereje
Producer: Rashida Josiah
Associate Producers: Anisa Kennar, Justine Ramirez, Lea Donenberg
Camera Operator: Chanthila Phaophanit
Assistant Camera: Kahdeem Prosper Jefferson, Gordan Wong
Gaffers: Billy Voermann, Mary Kalecinska
Swing: Alex Frischman
Audio: Mariya Chulichkova, Joanna Hunt
Set Designers: Ilana Portney, Dana Keren
Production Assistants: Quinton Johnson, Myles Haywood
Runners: Edie Chesters, Rachel Ademidun
Groomer for Andrew Bolton: Shin Arima
Makeup Artist for Sinéad Burke and Alex Consani: Ai Yokomizo
Hairstylist for Sinéad Burke and Alex Consani: Sonny Molina
Makeup Artist for Misty Copeland: Victor Henao
Hairstylist for Misty Copeland: Nai’vasha Grace
Makeup Artist for Aariana Philip: Meadow Soleil Cloud
Makeup Artist for Gwendoline Christie: Daniel Kolaric
Hairstylist for Gwendoline Christie: Joe Kelly
Hair & Makeup Artist for Aimee Mullins: Stèfan Jemeel
Production Coordinator: Tanía Jones
Production Manager: Kristen Helmick
Senior Production Manager: Venita Singh-Warner
Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors
Assistant Editors: Andy Morell, Fynn Lithgow
Senior Motion Graphics Designer: Samuel Fuller
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Entertainment Director: Sergio Kletnoy
Global Talent Casting Directors: Ignacio Murillo, Morgan Senesi
Executive Producer: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Florist: London Blooming Haus
Photography By Paul Westlake
Images Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Special Thanks: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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@tinaarabia825
December 13, 2023 at 8:17 am
،is it hard to say that you are 8 months pregnant instead of saying 31 weeks and a bit ????
@elisabeth8739
December 13, 2023 at 8:42 am
Maybe because it is counted in weeks when you go to the Dr and every milestone is in weeks !
@melaniep9244
December 13, 2023 at 8:50 am
Sounds like you are the one struggling to do basic math to mention it. ????
@tinaarabia825
December 13, 2023 at 9:22 am
@@melaniep9244 if I’m struggling to do a basic math how would I know that 31 weeks and a bit equals to eight months. Smart A****
@miopense
December 13, 2023 at 9:30 am
@@tinaarabia825 Haha touché
@annygyo
December 13, 2023 at 9:31 am
No but it’s less specific ????
@Jamiiie715
December 13, 2023 at 8:21 am
aww “we were the gilmore girls.. why change it” haha such a thing to say. i get it. cute ????
@user-eq2dx2jp6v
December 13, 2023 at 8:23 am
Best wishes ❤❤❤❤❤????????????????????????????
@Diamond_Skies
December 13, 2023 at 8:42 am
She’s so lovely.
@kimberlyfrazier2.099
December 13, 2023 at 8:43 am
Congrats to her and the baby. My Mother had me at 42 its no big deal. Fck Misogyny and Patriarchy.
@anastasiastasinou5959
December 13, 2023 at 9:13 am
Yeah????
@rheahinlo
December 13, 2023 at 8:44 am
Haay. Jude law… you should be regretting getting on with your kids nanny while in a relationship with Sienna.
@anujpramanik1819
December 13, 2023 at 1:15 pm
Sienna is no saint. She had an affair with Balthazar Getty while he was married with kids.
@DaytonJoey
December 13, 2023 at 9:22 am
She’s great. ????
@Scully331
December 13, 2023 at 9:30 am
I first saw Sienna in Miss Julia on Broadway, she was great. I then saw her after a screening of American Woman in Savannah at SCAD. The movie was powerful and well done. Sienna was interviewed after the screening and her responses revealed a smart, strong, kind woman that pursues wisdom regularly (not so much a series of light bulb moments, but a woman intent on living an examined life). Oh, and she is super pretty in real life too!
@janemackrell3733
December 13, 2023 at 9:41 am
Love Sienna, very beautiful but her personality shines through
@annasophiekodesova1
December 13, 2023 at 9:55 am
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@wsmcneal15
December 13, 2023 at 9:59 am
This was such a lovely interview
@FacheChanteDeux
December 13, 2023 at 10:02 am
Chloe reminds me so much of her mother, especially in her manner of speech. She seems like a lovely person. Sienna looks beautiful, she should just enjoy the time before her new daughter’s arrival. Safe birth!!
@jenm3056
December 13, 2023 at 10:05 am
Sienna is always so much fun and lovely and insightful…the interviewer, Chloe Malle is not a people person. She may be a fashion expert but this was uncomfortable, no conversational finesses, no connection, oddly authoritative—more interrogatory style?
@hijklmnop42
December 13, 2023 at 10:56 am
Came here to make the same comment… there were so many opportunities for laughs, warmth, and connection, and yet this interviewer was very business-like!
@mrs.snuffleupagus5735
December 13, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Agree. She didn’t seem terribly interested in the answers to her own questions, lol. Her dead pan “oh wow.”’s made me laugh.
@miarrem
December 13, 2023 at 12:46 pm
Trying too hard to be cool
@LorenaJackmanChavez
December 13, 2023 at 1:40 pm
agreed.
@worthigirl2946
December 13, 2023 at 10:10 am
She’s cool❤
@RagDoll88
December 13, 2023 at 10:17 am
Why did she cut off Sienna? Rude!
@glossycheeks7_
December 13, 2023 at 10:24 am
Amazing interview, Sienna’s Life deserves a movie.
@Vogue
December 13, 2023 at 10:50 am
Listen to Sienna on Vogue’s The Run-Through podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-run-through-with-vogue/id1526206712
@twentynine6569
December 13, 2023 at 11:32 am
It’s not double standards Sienna, the world expects men to have accidental children with some 14 years their junior but expects women to know better
@KS-tl7ym
December 13, 2023 at 12:51 pm
I’m simple. I see Sienna Miller and I click. She’s def my ultimate fashion and “vibe” influence.
@karinakiikii
December 13, 2023 at 1:04 pm
Sienna so beautiful and chill ???? I really enjoyed this interview ????
@mamam9497
December 13, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Love her!
@LorenaJackmanChavez
December 13, 2023 at 1:37 pm
This interview is painful to watch ???? This interviewer is awful why bring up so much trauma!
@littlelulu52093
December 13, 2023 at 1:51 pm
i love her
@ItWasForeverAgo
December 13, 2023 at 2:31 pm
she is just so beautiful.
@misslanapaulford
December 13, 2023 at 2:32 pm
So two faced, where was the outrageousnus about Richard Gere in his 70s and bloody Robert De Niro he’s 80 and his 45 partner… Your all quiet about them, men in there 70s 80s that’s fine. Women in her 40s blasphemy.
Society needs to stop being so completely two faced.