{"id":24601,"date":"2023-11-14T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/met-gala-unveils-2024-theme-sleeping-beauties\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:38:10","slug":"met-gala-unveils-2024-theme-sleeping-beauties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/met-gala-unveils-2024-theme-sleeping-beauties\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Gala unveils 2024 theme ‘Sleeping Beauties’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Metropolitan (Met) Museum of Art on Wednesday unveiled the theme for the Costume Institute\u2019s 2024 exhibition and gala, the fashion world\u2019s party of the year: \u2018Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion\u2019<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Every year, the Met Gala draws a who\u2019s who of A-listers from the worlds of fashion, film, politics and sports \u2013 a list tightly curated by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.<\/p>\n

Next year, the party will take place in Manhattan on May 6 to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, which the public can view from May 10 through September 2. Both are cosponsored by popular video-sharing app TikTok. The sweeping and immersive exhibition will feature about 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries, from the Costume Institute\u2019s vast archives of 33,000 pieces \u2014 from a 17th-century embroidered jacket to an Alexander McQueen gown from spring-summer 2001 made of shells.\"met \u201cUsing the natural world as a uniting visual metaphor for the transience of fashion, the show will explore cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal, breathing new life into these storied objects,\u201d the Met said.<\/p>\n

Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton explained that when items enter the museum\u2019s collection, \u201cit can\u2019t be worn, obviously. So you don\u2019t see the movement. You can\u2019t smell it, you can\u2019t hear it, you can\u2019t touch it.\u201d With the exhibition, he said he hopes to \u2018reawaken the sort of sensorial capacities within fashions in the Costume Institute, through various technologies\u2019.\"met<\/p>\n

Fanned out on a large table in a room resembling a laboratory was a full silk satin House of Worth ball gown from the late 19th century, its embroidery, beads and sequins still resplendent despite the years.\"\" The 1887 dress is now too fragile and damaged to be placed on a mannequin. So it will be displayed flat but also restored to its original magnificence thanks to computer imaging and the use of a hologram \u2014 a nod to immersive exhibitions that are all the rage today. Bolton said the museum approached Chinese-owned TikTok to cosponsor the event because of the platform\u2019s \u2018accessibility\u2019.\"\" \u201cWe really wanted to have the biggest, broadest sort of platform possible in terms of how the show is actually disseminated more globally,\u201d he said when asked if he feared backlash over choosing TikTok, given its alleged links to China\u2019s ruling Communist Party. The Met Gala is the primary source of funding for the Costume Institute. Wintour took over the charity gala in the 1990s and transformed it into one of the world\u2019s buzziest fetes.<\/p>\n

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