“These are the ‘Sleeping Beauties’ of the title,” curator Andrew Bolton said of the key 50 pieces.
Of course, the Met Gala exists as the fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Its Spring 2024 exhibit wasformally been set, but it's usually along a similar theme to the Met's exhibit (e.g. last year's exhibit was"Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," and theSo, what does"Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" actually mean? Well, not fairy tales, for starters.
Bolton further told Vogue that the exhibit will be structured around three zones of"Land, Sea, and Sky" and further devices such as AI and CGI will be used to display the garments. “It is very much an ode to nature and the emotional poetics of fashion," he added, noting the emphasis on sustainability and innovation in the contemporary pieces.
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