Like true love’s kiss to a fairy tale princess, fashion wakes things up.
Reviving centuries-old luxury goods through artificial intelligence and sensory simulation, the 2024 Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art titled Sleeping Beauties: Awakening Fashion is more than just a show-stopper. there is no.
It’s also something you feel, hear, and smell.
“”“Sleeping Beauty” heightens our engagement with these fashion masterpieces by evoking the feel, movement, sound, smell, and interaction with which they are worn,” said Marina Keren, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in France. says Max Hollein. stated in a statement.
Andrew Bolton, curator in charge, added: “This exhibition aims to bring these works of art to life by awakening their sensory capabilities through a range of technologies.”
More than 250 pieces from luxury brands such as Schiaparelli, Givenchy and Balenciaga will take center stage at the fashion extravaganza, alongside haute couture pieces that are up to 400 years old and too fragile to be displayed on mannequins.
A selection of vintage costumes, including Charles Frederick Worth’s 1877 ball gown, will be brought to life through AI, augmented reality, computer-generated imagery, video animation, light projection, and soundscapes.
“The walls of certain spaces will be embossed with embroidery of leaves, plants, and insects from Elizabethan bodices,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art teased in a statement. “On the floor of another building is an animated snake that frames the neckline of an early 20th century sequined dress.”
“The ceiling of another building will be projection-mapped with a Hitchcockian flock of blackbirds surrounding a black tulle evening dress designed by Madeleine Vionnet just before the outbreak of World War II.”
Photographer Nick Knight and British fashion film company Shaw Studio will be at the helm of the high-tech effort.
Upon entering the exhibition hall, visitors will be amazed by a series of three self-contained galleries, each dedicated to the elements of nature: earth, air and water.
One of the galleries will be styled after a lush garden. The plant space includes a greenhouse with blooming caps decorated with flowers.
The fragrant landscape, composed by Norwegian scent researcher Sissel Traas, subtly stimulates guests’ sense of smell. She previously used a “smell capture device” to collect scent molecules in the air to create her four scents for Balenciaga’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection in Paris.
The coat, made by Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson from oats, rye and wheatgrass, serves as a gem at the Met Gallery. During the exhibition, the outerwear is “alive” at first, but gradually “dies”.
Bolton said the entire production gives museum visitors “sensuous ‘access’ to rare historical clothing and precious contemporary fashion.”
More delicate designs and 1600s British embroidered waistcoats from Sleeping Beauty will be displayed under glass cases. Bolton cheekily refers to the container as a “coffin.”
“There’s a different way to understand the fragility of fashion. Many are pieces that you would never normally show,” he said. told the Hollywood Reporter. “But even that end-state should be seen and evaluated.”
Charles James’s 1955 ‘Butterfly’ ball gown will be one of the few pieces on display alongside restored reproductions.
Featuring a pleated silk chiffon “chrysalis” sheath on a silk satin background and a rich “winged” bustle skirt of nylon tulle, this original gorgeous piece is left exposed with age and a glass glaze. I will remain on the other side. A replica of the gown in its original condition will be placed to its side.
Met Gala attendees wore fierce frocks, including Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. You’ll enjoy new sights, sounds, and smells A look at the digitally inspired exhibit at the museum on Monday.
Zendaya will be an A-list guest at the annual fundraiser, along with fellow fashionistas Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Anna Wintour. Money earned during the festival will be used for museum exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and more.
“Garden of Time” is This will be the official dress code for the celebrity-studded soiree.. This is JG Ballard’s flowery title for his 1962 short story, inspired by nature’s never-ending cycle of sacred recreation.
Vogue’s bob-cut mogul Wintour has already hinted to the celebrity that she expects eveningwear to reflect an element of “ephemeral beauty.”
“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” will be open to the public from May 10th to September 2nd.
