Tour the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion Exhibit

You’ve seen theFashionSpot’s must-see fashion looks of the 2024 Met Gala, the worst-dressed attendees of the celebratory event and our ultimate best-dressed list from this year’s first Monday in May extravaganza.

Now, it’s time to tour the highly-anticipated “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibit with Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute. According to The Met, the exhibit “reactivates the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum’s collection through first-hand research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies—from cutting-edge tools of artificial intelligence and computer-generated imagery to traditional formats of x-rays, video animation, light projection, and soundscapes.”

“The exhibition features approximately 220 garments and accessories spanning four centuries, all visually connected through themes of nature, which also serves as a metaphor for the transience of fashion. Visitors will be invited to smell the aromatic histories of hats bearing floral motifs; to touch the walls of galleries that will be embossed with the embroidery of select garments; and to experience—via the illusion technique known as Pepper’s ghost—how the “hobble skirt” restricted women’s stride in the early 20th century. Punctuating the galleries will be a series of “sleeping beauties”—garments that can no longer be dressed on mannequins due to their extreme fragility.”

The “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition runs through until September 2, 2024 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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