Sleeping Beauties: The Reawakening: Met Gala 2024 Theme Promises Fashion. Extravaganza
The fashion world takes note as the theme for Meta Gala 2024 gets revealed. This time, it’s Sleeping Beauties: The Reawakening.
The chosen and precious creations from the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be in full glory at the event. The collection is going to have a lot of dainty stuff.
The delicate structure of these creations does not allow hanging them. Otherwise, they may disintegrate.
So, in the true Sleeping Beauty way, these costumes will be kept inside glass boxes for display. Also, the Sleeping Beauties theme makes the anticipation high about the celebs turning up in fairytale gowns and exquisite outfits inspired by the popular fantasy character.
Curator Andrew Bolton has been the man behind the fashion brilliance and the creations to be displayed at the Met Gala. Bolton said that he was eager to infuse life into the massive 33000 pieces of the collection.
Many of these pieces have remained away from the public eye. However, he has picked 250 pieces from the collection, and these ones display fashion across four centuries.
On Wednesday, Bolton guided some journalists to the conservation lab into the bowel of the museum. He then expressed how he has been seeing fashion as a living art form. With the creations asleep in the conservation center, nothing could have been a more apt statement.
He further added that he aimed to present these pieces to the museumgoers in the most tangible way. He did not want the museum-goers to just see the pieces. He wanted them to know the pieces through smell and sound.
He said,
“When a costume comes into the Met collection it changes irrevocably. It can’t be worn, obviously, you don’t see it in movement, you can’t smell it, can’t hear it, can’t touch it.”
So, he focused on making the sensory aspects of the creation alive.
We can completely relate to his point. When someone walks down the gallery wearing perfume, it becomes the extension of fashion.
Similarly, you can hear fashion as an Alexander McQueen dress with stripped razor shells makes a rattling sound.
Some of the striking pieces in the collection include a bodice from the Elizabethan Era. It shows embroidery work inspired by nature.
Charles Frederick Worth’s gown will take us back to the 19th century, and it’s one of those pieces that cannot be displayed due to fragility.
There will also be a lot of mix and match with the incorporation of modern fashion elements into the “sleeping” pieces. The cutting-edge technology and inspiration like Hitchcock’s movies are going to render the collection “interesting.”
The exhibition will take place from 10th May to 2nd September 2024. Let’s see how the boundaries of fashion are pushed.
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