NEW YORK (AP) — Sure, she was a royal princess. However, there is no way that Sleeping Beauty would have had such an amazing wardrobe, both before and after naps, as assembled at her home. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” Spring Costume Institute Exhibition Held for the First Time Monday's Met Gala, Strictly speaking, this is not the story of Sleeping Beauty.The title's nod to fairy tales is actually Mention of glass coffin — jokingly says, “Let’s lighten up and call it an incident.” Curator Andrew Bolton – 16 dilapidated garments in storage, now too broken to be straightened. These delicate creatures, like the Northern Lights themselves, rest in the museum's temperature-controlled archives.
However, these “beauties” are just a few of the 220 items on display. In “Sleeping Beauty” with a nature theme, Bolton calls it one of the institute's most ambitious shows to date (his previous blockbusters include “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” and “China: Looking Through the Mirror”). It is also a special place in Bolton as all the items on display are from the museum's own collection.
Another key difference: The show will be a multisensory experience that includes not only sight, but also smell, sound, and touch. The show, which was themed around Earth, Air and Water, utilized 'smell artists' who extracted and analyzed molecules from clothing, allowing visitors to smell them through plastic tubes. . The curators also captured the sound of the fabric in an echo-free room and used 3D scanning to replicate the embroidery patterns so they can be touched.
Despite the scale, “I really wanted this to be intimate and participatory,” Bolton said during the show's weekend tour. In fact, there's even a mannequin wearing a gown, and you can text her questions and she'll answer them back. ChatGPT compatible response.
Some highlights:
Straight from the “Golden Age”
Late 19th-century satin and chiffon ball gowns opened the show, with intricate embroidery of metallic thread, golden beads, and sequins evoking sunbeams radiating from clouds. But the “cloud dress” by the influential British designer charles frederick worth The deterioration of the warp is dooming it, Bolton says, and “there's nothing we can do about it.” On a nearby screen, the illusion of an animated “Pepper's Ghost” that took him nine months to complete, except perhaps for a digital recreation, shows a dress dancing at a ball. It is. This gown was donated by relatives of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor. HBO's “The Gilded Age” Written by Donna Murphy.
The sound of “scoop” (and mate shellfish)
Three gowns from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries explore the look of “fuzzy flowers,” an effect that makes dresses look like watercolors or Impressionist works. But in this gallery you can also hear “scroop”, the rustling sound of silk taffeta (a combination of the words “scrap” and “whoop”). The sound was recorded in an echo-free room at Binghamton University. In another gallery, you can hear the rattling sound of mate shells photographed in the same way. mcqueen's A dramatic “razor shell” dress covered in dried and bleached seashells.
Dior of my dreams
christian dior It is influenced by Impressionist painters, most evident in the delicate floral embroidery on famous paintings. miss dior Dress, this is a miniature version of the original. It looks like a chic (and strapless) bouquet of flowers. If you want to touch it, there's a small white replica made of 3D printed plastic. You can also hand trace the wallpaper created to match the shapes and forms of edgy 2013 flowers. Raf Simons The version of the dress is black with flowers on the leather.
Speaking of embroidery
In 1988, Yves Saint Laurent A glittering jacket with embroidery pays homage to Van Gogh's famous depiction of irises 100 years ago. The museum displays the garment, which took artisans 600 hours to create, using 250 meters of ribbon, 200,000 beads and 250,000 sequins in 22 colors, and is displayed flat for a closer look. .
smell the roses
It's no wonder that in nature-themed shows, you can find rooms dedicated to roses. Then try smelling the scent of roses through the scent in the plastic tube. It's not just the scent of roses, it's the scent of the clothing itself and the person wearing it.Bolton explains: Norwegian “Fragrance Artist'' Sissel Traas brought in equipment to extract molecules from 57 pieces of clothing. Her two evening dresses (one by Saint Laurent for Dior, the other by Lanvin for him) contain molecules found in almonds, honey, tobacco and hay, and even “a gentle anti-moth and cockroach agent''. Even “sexual attractants'' were produced.
woman's scent
Yes, that is al pacino Movies — but this is a gallery dedicated to Millicent Rogers. Millicent Rogers was a socialite, heiress, and art collector known for her style and how she combined haute couture with her regional dresses. But this gallery focuses on her scent, analyzing the molecules in her clothes (such as Schiaparelli's 1938 blue silk crepe evening dress) to tell us not just what she smells like, but also what she eats. It also reveals their habits and lifestyle, including what they eat, drink and smoke.
This coat is alive! (not that long)
The biggest attraction of the Garden Life section is the grass coat, which is made of wool itself and is planted with oats, rye, and wheatgrass like soil.Currently designed by Gala Honorary Chairman Jonathan Anderson at Loewe Label (Program sponsor) The green looks beautiful. However, this version is dying as it cannot be watered and will be replaced by a version at a different stage of life in about a week after opening. Here, too, there are many floral hats on display from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's extensive collection. These have also been analyzed for smell, and of course not only hairspray, but also chewing gum, cigarettes, and other odors have been detected.
Please do not feed these birds.
Bolton said he wanted to depict not only nature but also shades of emotion, including fear. This is what you might feel when you reach parts of things that fly, such as the wings of insects or beetles, for example. Also, birds.It is said that he was also a fan of McQueen. Alfred Hitchcock's “The Birds”, and here we have his orange wool jacket with black swallows printed on it. The creepy part is the animation on the ceiling. First a few black birds, then more appear, turning the space into an eerie black. The animation, created in consultation with wildlife experts, is made up of “14,000 digital swallows,” which he finishes with 4,000 simulated feathers. As for the sound, he recorded the sounds of real swallows and also included the 'humming' sound from his 1963 film itself to create tension.
“Sleeping Beauty: Awakening Fashion” It opens to the public on Friday and will run until September 2nd.
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