Vogue & the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute
Subtitle: parties, exhibitions, people
By: by Hamish Bowles ; foreword by Thomas P. Campbell ; introduction by Anna Wintour ; edited by Chloe Malle
Contributors: Campbell, Thomas P. (Thomas Patrick), 1962-; Wintour, Anna, 1949-; Malle, Chloe; Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781419714245
Subjects: Fashion; Exhibitions; Celebrities; Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.); Pictorial works; History
Other titles: Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute :; Vogue (New York, N.Y.)
Description: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute exhibition is the most spectacular event of its kind. The subjects explore fashion history, from 2001's "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House years" to 2011's "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" and 2014's "Charles James: beyond fashion," and in turn reflect and create the contemporary zeitgeist. Each exhibition draws a provocative and engaging narrative attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. The show's opening-night gala, produced in collaboration with Vogue magazine and attended by the likes of Beyoncé, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, and Hillary Clinton, is regularly referred to as the party of the Year. Covering the Costume Institute's history and highlighting exhibitions of the twenty-first century curated by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, this book offers insider access of the first order. Anchored by photographs from the exhibitions themselves in tandem with the Vogue fashion shoots they inspired, it also includes images of exhibited objects and party photos from the galas.