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New York’s Met Museum looks back at 150 years of fashion history

The Metropolitan Museum of New York (Met) presented a few days ago “About Time”, an exhibition that should have opened last May with which it reviews the evolution of fashion during the last 150 years as part of its celebration of the century and half of the history of the cultural institution.

“About Time: Fashion and Duration”, the full title, is the show that the Met organizes every year around fashion and which, together with the popular Met Gala -organized by fashion guru Anna Wintour-, has as aim to attract funds to finance the museum’s Costume Institute. This year, however, the coronavirus has forced the cancellation of the Met Gala, considered one of the most notorious events in the fashion world, but its exhibition, although with about six months of delay, has finally seen the light.

The exhibition, which can be seen from October 29 to February 7, explores the concept of the continuity of time of the philosopher Henri Bergson and explains how clothing generates temporal associations that unite the present, the past and the future, something that also It is examined through the writings of Virginia Woolf, which are used as a narrative thread.

The exhibition presents 125 designs in chronological order, from 1870, the year the Met was opened, to the present, and most of them are part of the permanent collection of the Institute of Costume, some of which have been donated by important designers to commemorate 150 years of the museum.

All the suits are black, to highlight the changes in the silhouettes, except for the latest design presented, from the Viktor & Rolf Spring-Summer 2020 collection, made of recycled scraps and serving as a symbol of the future of fashion. emphasizing community, collaboration and sustainability.

Entre los diseños presentados se encuentran piezas de Balenciaga, Chanel, Christian Dior, Tom Ford para Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Nicolas Ghesquiere para Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Rei Kawakubo para Comme des Garçons, Christian Lacroix, Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld para Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Miuccia Prada, Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace o Vivienne Westwood.

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