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May 7, 2012

Don’t Miss Tonight: The Met Gala Red Carpet!

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We may not all get the invite to The Met Gala Red Carpet (sigh), however, we can all partake in a live streaming for the first time in history! From 6:30-8:30 p.m. EST, the museum’s Costume Institute Benefit’s corresponding arrivals to the Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations exhibition will be live streaming on the website: Click here to watch!

Hosted by Vogue’s William Norwich and Elettra Wiedemann, the broadcast will feature interviews with the likes of Miuccia Prada, Carey Mulligan, Anna Wintour, other gala co-chairs and more!

Get involved by sending in your own questions via Twitter (#MetQuestions) during the live stream. The hosts will be choosing viewer questions throughout the evening. You can also join the conversation by following the Met on Facebook and Twitter. Use the Twitter hashtags #ImpossibleConversations and #MetGala.

So, don your best couture gown or cozy up in your pajamas; just don’t miss the fashion must-see event of the year!

-Alana Quagliariello

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February 7, 2012

Fashion-Related Museum Exhibits Not To Miss

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Mark your calendars, book your trips, and get ready to experience fashion, museum-style this spring with a bunch of terrific exhibits, some of which are already in progress!

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Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion –  May 10, 2012 – August 19th, 2012, The Costume Institute at The Met, NYC. Peruse the 80 designs on display that are meant to compare and contrast the aesthetics, along with the developing concepts of fashion over time.

Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, now – through April 15, 2012 The Bard Graduate Center, NYC – view 250 hats like those you’ve never seen before, curated by master milliner Stephen Jones,  which spans centuries of exquisite head wear designs.

IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA (February 10 – April 17), Youthquake! The 1960s Fashion Revolution (March 6 – April 7), at The Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC — rediscover the past, and rethink contemporary fashion and textiles courtesy of the two upcoming FIT museum exhibits.


The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk — now through –February 12, 2012 at The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. Survey the career of one of the most provocative, well-known names in fashion today.

June 13, 2009

The Model as Muse

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Living in New York City most certainly has its set of challenges — and rewards. One of the major benefits, I’ve found, is the seriousness that the subject of fashion is given by the musuems here. It’s quite refreshing, actually to be able to approach fashion as a formal area of study, which can draw interest on such a wide scale. I recently went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) to view the latest Costume Institute exhibit, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, which broke out models into the timeline 1947-1997.

For starters, I couldn’t help but observe that I’ve never seen so many guys at a Costume Institute exhibit (maybe they thought actual models would be there?).  The exhibit pin pointed a selection of models with distinct looks and personalities, while reenacting famous photo shoots, actual magazine covers of the period, and displaying about 80 complete looks. My favorite room was tied: grunge and the sixties — how about you? If traveling to New York City sometime between now and August 9th, I recommend stopping by the Met to see The Model as Muse. For the sake of preservation, I only snapped one photo at the entrance of the exhibit (Richard Avedon’s 1955 photo, “Dovima with elephants”, but you can check out the Met’s flickr page for more photos of the final installations and behind-the-scenes pictures.

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