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
The Met Gala as we know it today is one of the biggest fashion, celebrity and pop culture events. However, it wasn’t always the star-studded and dramatic costume night that it is now. It first started as a charity event created by publicist Eleanor Lambert to raise money for the then newly founded Costume Institute. … Read more
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