Due to the 150th anniversary of the creation, 2020 will be a landmark year for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. In keeping with the anniversary, the Art Costume Institute announced that the theme of the Met Gala will be "About Time: Fashion and Duration".
The topic chosen will tell a century and a half of world history detached from the archive. Andrew Bolton, curator at the Costume Institute, said the theme "is an imagination of fashion history, an intertwined and heterogeneous imagination."
Bolton found inspiration from Sally Poter's 1992 film Orlando, which is based on the novel of the same name by Virginia Woolf.
?There is a wonderful scene,? he says, ?in which Tilda Swinton enters a maze of a 18th-century woman's robe and as she passes through it, her clothes change and belong to the 19th century and she reappears in 1850s England. ".
Bolton was inspired by Woolf's stream of consciousness and the idea of continuity in her works, mentioning here "Orlando" and "Mrs. Dalloway." ?There is no beginning, no middle and no end. That's how I conceive fashion, ?he said.
In a press release, Max Hollein, Met's director, elaborated on the concept: ?This exhibition will consider the early nature of fashion, moving before and after in time, to discover how fashion can be linear or cyclic. "
The event, to be chaired by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, and Nicolas Ghesquière, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, will be held May 4.
Source: Vogue
