P. Grace Hernandez, 2010–12 Polaire Weissman Fellow, The Costume Institute
Posted: Monday, January 14, 2013
When the Brooklyn Museum transferred its costume collection to the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute in January 2009, the Met acquired an impressive array of garments from renowned European and American designers. Some highlights from the collection were featured in the related 2010 exhibitions American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity at the Met and American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection at the Brooklyn Museum. Yet the collection also contains a set of objects with noteworthy local origins: garments and accessories made by Brooklyn-based clothing and accessory makers—milliners, tailors, and dressmakers—working independently or in department stores during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The next The Costume Institute exhibition swerves to the streets and clubs of New York and London, then to ateliers and runways with PUNK: Chaos to Couture. The exhibition, on view from May 9 through August 11, 2013, will examine punk's impact from the 1970s to its continuing influence on high fashion now.
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Julie Tran Lê, Library Associate, The Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library
Posted: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Lucy Redoglia, Imaging Coordinator, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Jonathan Faiers, Reader in Fashion Theory at Winchester School of Art
Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2011
Shannon Bell Price, Associate Research Curator, The Costume Institute
Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2011
Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Thursday, August 5, 2010
Among the gorgeous garments on display in the exhibition American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (closing August 15) is an exquisite black evening dress attributed to Madame Marie Gerber of the house of Callot Soeurs. I spoke with Andrew Bolton, curator in the Met's Costume Institute, about the dress's bold design and glamorous, influential owner.
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Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Alice W. Schwarz, Museum Educator
Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
What do you get when you mix a groundbreaking exhibition, a cutting-edge curatorial team, two enthusiastic Museum educators, and a great American fashion company? A T-shirt design competition for teens!
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Posted: Friday, February 5, 2010
Project Runway, the reality television series about fashion design, visited the Met during an episode entitled "The Highs and Lows of Fashion," which debuted on January 28, 2010.
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