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Source: boards.style.com --- 16 days ago
tell me everything about the met! who did you like the most? the best/ worst dressed. your favorite actress/model/designer who attended it ...
Source: rvablogs.com --- 44 days ago
Laurel Ann, my blogging partner at Jane Austen Today, gave me a copy of Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute a thick, breathtaking book with color photographs of the Institute’s extensive western fashion collection. The Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI), founded in 1978, is the only institution in Japan to study Western fashion. Its collections [...] ...
Source: www.nyc.com --- 91 days ago
The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than thirty thousand costumes and accessories spanning five continents and as many centuries. Arguably the preeminent institution of its kind in the w... Event Date & Time: 11/10/2009 09:30 AM Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) ...
Source: www.wornthrough.com --- 111 days ago
I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for my former days working with Costume collections and I suspect a number of you enjoy looking at the inner workings of costumes and museums alike. I happened upon these videos which provide a wonderful, inside look at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The [...] ... Source: crunchyjewelsbyjuliele.blogspot.com --- 115 days ago
Costume Institute Focuses on American Style Costume Institute Focuses on American Style by Marc Karimzadeh Posted Tuesday September 08, 2009 From WWD Issue 09/08/2009 NEW YORK — In the past decade, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has traveled to England via “AngloMania”; France with Chanel and Paul Poiret, and pretty much around the globe thanks to superheroes and models. Next spring, it is staying much closer to home with “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity,” which explores the way fashion between 1890 and 1940 contributed to the evolving identity and perception of American women. Scheduled from May 5 to Aug. 15, the show will mark the first Costume Institute exhibit based on the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection that was transferred to the Met last January. “I was looking through the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, and thinking about developing a concept around the holdings,” said Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute, who is organizing the exhibit with the help of curator in charge Harold Koda. “What I found really compelling around the collection was that there were clothes that to me epitomized these archetypes of American femininity that you have read about in novels and seen in paintings and photographs.” The show, to be located in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall on the museum’s second floor, will feature about 75 pieces from designers such as Travis Banton, Callot Soeurs, Elizab ... Source: www.scumbagclothing.com --- 134 days ago
Alle har vel sett disse bildene, men likevel digger jeg fremdeles hvordan hun rocket den ellers så klassisk dress-looken på den røde løperen, her i Dolce & Gabbana. Ingenting er det å si på sminken heller! ... Source: 3news.co.nz --- 148 days ago
Patrick Robinson is "honoured" to be co-hosting next year's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute gala. ... Source: www.celebrityfashionwatcher.com --- 149 days ago
The creative director of Gap Patrick Robinson - who will be presiding over the fashion event alongside US talk show host Oprah Winfrey - is particularly taken with the event’s theme, ‘American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity’. He explained to GraziaDaily.co.uk : "Gap is honoured to be invited by The Met to participate - supporting art and culture has always been at the heart of the brand. We are excited by the theme as this feels like a really natural fit - hopefully in our 40 years we have done just this by delivering versatile American style. //--> "I love that this exhibition speaks to how the American woman is multi-dimensional - she’s about high fashion and she’s about everyday fashion. Which is why I’m thrilled Oprah is our co-chair for the Gala benefit as she epitomises this versatility and has played such a significant part in shaping everything about today’s woman." Patrick is equally as thrilled with the way Gap’s latest collection has been received. He explained the Pierre Hardy boots, T-shirts with silk pockets and denim gilets are so popular the company has had to start a waiting list. Gap employees can’t get enough of the slim-fitting chinos, boyfriend shirts and pea coats. Patrick added: "Look out for our new take on the classic Gap grey sweatshirt - which I predict will be the essential easy luxe piece for 2010." ... Source: www.papierdoll.net --- 151 days ago
New York, NY (CNS) – Oprah Winfrey is set to host fashion’s biggest soiree next year. The media mogul will be co-presenting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala on May 3 with Gap creative director Patrick Robinson. The annual New York fashion event will be themed “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity” for 2010. According [...] ... Source: www.fabsugar.com --- 153 days ago
Let's see, this year we explored models as muses , the year before we dodged superheroes . 2010's Costume Institute will be all about American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity. “The story of the American woman is really a story of the power of fashion to shape and define identity,” said Andrew Bolton , curator of the Costume Institute. The exhibit will examine our country's fashion between 1890 and 1940 with articles transferred over from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection. To go with the all-American theme, Oprah, Anna Wintour, and Gap's Patrick Robinson will act as co-chairs for the event. While we patiently wait for next year's red carpet, play our awesome Met Costume Institute Gala Faceoff and win cash prizes! ... Source: www.wikio.co.uk --- 153 days ago
Oprah Winfrey and Gap creative director Patrick Robinson will co-chair the annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute next May, in support of a new exhibit that focuses on the style of American women. The two will join Anna Wintour at the fundraising gala which will take place on May 3, 2010. [T]he next exhibit is "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity." It will... Source : ShoppingBlog.com ( subscribe ) Explore : Culture , Entertainment , Literature , Museums , Patrick Robinson ... Source: nosenseoftime.org --- 153 days ago
The exhibition, which will run from May 5, 2010 to August 15, 2010, will harness the resources of the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met and it will take a closer look at American women from 1890-1940 and how these women have influenced our perceptions of the modern woman. The exhibition (which will include pieces not seen in public for the past 30 years) will be curated by Andrew Bolton with the support of Harold Koda and the production designer will be Nathan Crowley , a film designer whose credits include The Dark Knight and Public Enemies . via style.com This seems like a really good exhibit. I’ll have to make sure I go. Permalink | Leave a comment » ... Source: coterieblog.blogspot.com --- 153 days ago
It's about time! In the past decade, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has traveled to England via “AngloMania”; France with Chanel and Paul Poiret, and pretty much around the globe thanks to superheroes and models. Next spring, it is staying much closer to home with “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity,” which explores the way fashion between 1890 and 1940 contributed to the evolving identity and perception of American women. Scheduled from May 5 to Aug. 15, the show will mark the first Costume Institute exhibit based on the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection that was transferred to the Met last January. “I was looking through the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, and thinking about developing a concept around the holdings,” said Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute, who is organizing the exhibit with the help of curator in charge Harold Koda. “What I found really compelling around the collection was that there were clothes that to me epitomized these archetypes of American femininity that you have read about in novels and seen in paintings and photographs.” The show, to be located in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall on the museum’s second floor, will feature about 75 pieces from designers such as Travis Banton, Callot Soeurs, Elizabeth Hawes, Madame Grès, Charles James, Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, Valentina, Jean-Philippe Worth and Charles Frederick Worth. The exhibit will touch on ... Source: www.elleuk.com --- 154 days ago
... Source: forums.thefashionspot.com --- 154 days ago
source | wwd.com Quote: NEW YORK In the past decade, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute has traveled to England via AngloMania; France with Chanel and Paul Poiret, and pretty much around the globe thanks to superheroes and models. Next spring, it is staying much closer to home with American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, which explores the way fashion between 1890 and 1940 contributed to the evolving identity and perception of American women. Scheduled from May 5 to Aug. 15, the show will mark the first Costume Institute exhibit based on the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection that was transferred to the Met last January. I was looking through the Brooklyn Museums collection, and thinking about developing a concept around the holdings, said Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute, who is organizing the exhibit with the help of curator in charge Harold Koda. What I found really compelling around the collection was that there were clothes that to me epitomized these archetypes of American femininity that you have read about in novels and seen in paintings and photographs. The show, to be located in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall on the museums second floor, will feature about 75 pieces from designers such as Travis Banton, Callot Soeurs, Elizabeth Hawes, Madame Grès, Charles James, Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, Valentina, Jean-Philippe Worth and Charles Frederick Worth. The ex ... Source: www.elegantwpthemes.com --- 161 days ago
New York – While seeing the face of a celebrity on the cover of a fashion magazine or starring in an advertising campaign for Louis Vuitton is the rule, rather than the exception these days, once upon a time it was the professional model who brought the collections of designers like Christian Dior , Cristobal Balenciaga , Yves Saint Laurent, Halston and Calvin Klein to the public, and to life. hese women, who functioned as the standards of ideal beauty during any given era and in turn, had a hand in shifting that ideal – from the poise and polish of someone like Dovima in the ’50s, to the waifish Twiggy to the rise of black models like Iman and Beverly Johnson in the ’70s – are the focus of a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute this spring, “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion,” which celebrated its opening at the museum in New York Monday night, May 4, with the annual star-studded gala that is one of fashion’s biggest nights. Sources: news.yahoo.com ... Source: appeljar.etsy.com --- 173 days ago
$11.95 2 Booklets: "Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences Scranton, PA" DESIGNING WITH FOUNDATION PATTERNS...dated 1923 - 57 pgs. TIGHT LININGS AND BONING...dated 1915 - 44 pgs. These would be excellent for a Costumer or someone interested in Re-enactment from days gone by. On the inside front of the Foundation Patterns it comments: Accurate patterns possessing good style lines are a real advantage in garment making as they save both time & material. This book comes to help you know patterns, their virtues, & the points to watch in using them, how to change the lines & proportions to suit special needs or to obtain special style effects. Once you become thoroughly acquainted with foundation pattern lines & proportions, you will have no difficulty in designing & cutting any type of dress you desire, using the guide patterns as a safeguard in size. In Tight Linings & Boning the contents are: Padding a Dress Form Remarks on Forms Making the Tight Lining Padding the Form Hints on the care & use of the Padded Form Remarks on Boning Boned Tight Lining Girdles or Waist-Line Foundations These 2 booklets both have lots of illustrations & photos. Condition of both are very good. Please take a look at the AppelJar shop for more goodies ~ Just click the blue link: AppelJar.etsy.com ... See also: Costume Institute |
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After fashionable forays into the worlds of superheroes and supermodels , the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute is returning to mere mortals with a spring exhibition entitled " American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity " [and cue and old-timey syncopated version of The Guess Who track ]. The opening of the Gap-sponsored show will be feted on May 3 with the annual Costume Institute benefit gala, this year co-chaired by Oprah Winfrey , Gap designer Patrick Robinson , and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour . A fitting historical follow-up on the aesthetics and innovation now on view in the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology's "American Beauty" exhibition , expertly curated by Patricia Mears , the Costume Institute's "American Woman" will feature approximately 80 examples of haute couture and high fashion from the vast Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, which the Met acquired in 2008 . The show will explore changing perceptions of the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. "The ideal of the American woman evolved from a dependence on European, Old World ideas of elegance into an independent New World sensibility that reflected freedoms still associated with American women today," said Andrew Bolton , curator of the Costume Institute, in a statement issued today. "The show will look at fashion's role in defining how American women have been represen ...
Art lovers may be counting the days until Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens on April 27, but fashion types have already inked May 5—the opening of American Women: Fashioning a National Identity —into their Erdem-designed 2010 Smythson agendas. (A lucky few will join Anna Wintour, Oprah Winfrey, and Gap’s Patrick Robinson for the Party of the Year on May 3.) What to expect? “I decided to take a more interpretive and conceptual approach to American Women ,” curator Andrew Bolton said at the Director’s Press Luncheon today. The show, which is drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met, considers Yankee style not through specific arbiters of style, but through broader archetypes such as the heiress, the flapper, and the suffragette that emerged between 1890 and 1940. The show closes with an examination of the screen siren because, according to Bolton, she is the apex of American style and glamour. “Women all over the world base their ideal of beauty after her.” —Laird Borrelli-Persson Photo: Eugene Robert Richee, Hulton Archive, Getty Images ...
Last year the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ’s Costume Institute held an exhibition on Superhero costumes called Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy . There were fashion shows and exhibits that caught peoples attention. The basic comparison between the two is described by the exhibitions curator: When I first started working on the exhibition about 5 years ago my first impulse was to focus on clothing that quite literally transformed you into a superhero. So, clothing that enabled you to run faster, swim faster, and even fly, but as I developed the exhibition I became more interested in looking at the symbolic and metaphoric association between superheroes and fashion. On the surface it might seem that fashion and superheroes have very little in common, but they actually share rather surprising similarities, both are reflections of the zeitgeist, so mirrors to our social, political, and even social realities and anxieties. At the core of both are issues of identity and transformation. Fashion and superheroes not only allow you to escape into your fantasies, but also to act out your fantasies, the idea of transforming yourself into anybody or anything. The introduction from a lecture by Andrew Bolton (curator, The Costume Institute) It is an interesting and compelling case and suggests that high fashion isn’t much more than what comic book fans would call cosplay. (I’ll leave aside the cynical comparison between the distorted repre ...
