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‘Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion’ discloses how The Costume Institute has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality, including iconic works by designers who have changed fashion history and advanced fashion as an art form.
The first to explore the challenging and compelling territory of taste in fashion, the exhibition ‘The Vulgar. Fashion Redifined’ displays more than 120 fashion objects, drawing the visual vocabulary of vulgarity from the renaissance to today.
What makes a brand? What goes into constructing a fashion house’s identity? ‘Label It. Trademarks in Fashion’ aims to answer these questions through a selection of the creations of the most representative designers of contemporary fashion.
The exhibition ‘1920s JAZZ AGE Fashion & Photographs’ brings together over 150 objects including sportswear, printed day dresses, fringed flapper dresses, beaded evening wear, velvet capes, and silk pyjamas to recount age of modernity and frivolity.
The one who inspired the character of Oriane, Duchess of Guemantes, in Marcel Proust’s novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’, the Countess Greffulhe is the protagonist of this exhibition that brings together over 40 fashion objects belonged to her.
