Of course, your cohosting comes at a time when your profile-and that of Versace-has never been higher. And I still think about “ Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.” Such a genius! A creative mind with no equals in his generation. I thought it was an incredible idea to build a bridge between the past and the present. One of the most ancient cultures was associated with one of the most modern-Yahoo. “ China: Through the Looking Glass” for the first time highlighted the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion and how China has fueled the imagination for centuries. Which past Costume Institute shows have you loved? Naomi Campbell rocks a Fall 1997 Atelier Versace evening dress embellished with a cross Photo: Conde Nast Archive (See her hilarious and honest answering of 73 Questions on this very site for proof of that.)Īhead of her cochairing duties at Monday night’s Met Gala-as well as dressing a whole constellation of the heavenly bodies of various major boldface individuals-Donatella spoke about what it means to be involved in this year’s exhibition, how she copes with the present as well as the past, and-perhaps surprisingly-the power of prayer. For every grandiloquent gesture there’s a sly, self-deprecating quip quick to drop from her lips. Yet it’s also because our cultural moment favors figures who encompass both a larger-than-life presence and a confessional and conspiratorial intimacy that allows Donatella to reign supreme. It’s partly the terrific Versace collections that she has done the past two seasons, which have explicitly mined, in a way they’ve never really done before, the heritage of the house founded by her late brother, Gianni. Condé Nast provided additional support.To say that Donatella Versace is on a high right now is a little like saying everyone’s obsessed with season two of The Handmaid’s Tale it’s utterly and plainly obvious. The Met’s leading exhibition was made possible through lead sponsorship from Christine and Stephen A. Apparently, Catholicism trumped Michelangelo. The second-place show makes it the 10th most-attended show in the museum’s history. “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer” reeled in more than 700,000 visitors during its run from Nov. “Heavenly Bodies” is the second record-breaking exhibition at The Met this year. for those who purchase EmptyMet: Heavenly Bodies tickets online. 6 and 7, “Heavenly Bodies” will open early starting at 8:30 a.m. Met-goers, who see the entire show, will get a glimpse of The Met Fifth Avenue’s medieval galleries, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art (this part of The Robert Lehman Wing closed earlier this month), the Anna Wintour Costume Center and the The Met Cloisters in northern Manhattan. More ambitious visitors to the show have a lot of ground to cover. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, The Met racked in more than 7.35 million visitors to its three locations - The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters and The Met Breuer. Bolton’s latest effort will no doubt help bolster this year’s overall attendance. “Heavenly Bodies” appears to be closing in on The Met’s all-time, most-attended show, “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” from 1978. The success of the exhibition has been another winning moment for The Costume Institute’s curator in charge Andrew Bolton, who has helped to rev up attendance numbers in recent years. On the flip side, visitors who may be in search of non-fashion exhibitions may be introduced and perhaps tempted to explore more in The Costume Institute. The layout inevitably is leading many attendees to areas of the museum beyond the Costume Institute. A myriad of designs from Thierry Mugler, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Thom Browne, Azzedine Alaïa, John Galliano for the House of Dior, Claire McCardell, Madeleine Vionnet, Isabel Toledo, Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino, Elsa Schiaparelli and other designers are on view throughout the Met. Spanning 60,000 square feet and 25 galleries, the exhibition is the largest that has ever been staged. With 1.3 million visitors at the Upper East Side museum and nearly 200,000 at The Met Cloisters - and counting - the show is the most-visited one for The Met’s Costume Institute. THE MET’S SUNDAY BEST: Last-minute museum-goers still have 10 days to catch the record-breaking “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fifth Avenue location and The Met Cloisters.
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