2018: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic ImaginationĢ018’s divine theme had hundreds of holy items on display, including dozens of artefacts and objects sent over from the Vatican (most of which had never seen the light beyond Rome). Among the pieces on display were dazzling looks from Off-White, Schiaparelli, Moschino, Dior, Thom Browne, and lots more. Fashion is the present.” 2019: Camp: Notes on Fashionįor 2019’s exhibition, Bolton drew on Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964 essay, “ Notes on ‘Camp’.” The essay describes a sensibility marked by performance, excess, and a kind of winking bad taste exemplified by figures like Oscar Wilde and outré aesthetic movements such as Art Nouveau. “What I like about Woolf’s version of time is the idea of a continuum,” Bolton said. Bolton found inspiration in Orlando, the 1992 film based on the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. The 2020 gala was postponed indefinitely due to the pandemic, but its theme is still worth revisiting: In honour of the Met’s 150th anniversary, “About Time” took a look back at a century-and-a-half’s worth of fashion. Guests, which include co-chairs Timothée Chalamet, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman, and Naomi Osaka abided by the night's official dress code: American independence.
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