Andrew Bolton

Exclusive preview of The Met’s ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’

by

This week’s opening of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art couldn’t be further from a sleepy fairy tale. Visitors will make their way through a series of 29 rooms, where 16 ‘Sleeping Beauties’ – garments too fragile to hang on mannequins – are buried in glass. While … Read more

Inside The Met’s new exhibition celebrating women dressing women

by

Inside The Met’s new exhibition celebrating women who do just thatCourtesy of the Costume Institute Last week, at a preview of the Costume Institute’s new exhibit, Women Dressing Women, I heard women talking about the women who wore them. It was a fitting subject given the occasion, yet there was an excitement among fashion journalists … Read more