NEW YORK -- If there's been one uniting theme of all the blockbuster fashion exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it's the simple idea that fashion is art. "Costume Art," announced Monday as ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute is putting form back into fashion-and placing fashion at the forefront of New York's busiest institution. On Monday, the museum revealed that its ...

Rarely can you talk about fashion without invoking the human form—and at the Costume Institute’s 2026 spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that entwinement comes into sharp focus.

“To understand fashion, we must move beyond the static object and consider its life in the world; its intimacy with the body, its role in shaping subjectivity,” said Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge ...

What’s the best dressed painting of all time? It’s a question the Metropolitan Museum of Art hopes to answer with its next Costume Institute exhibition, which it revealed on Monday morning will be ...

“I am afraid to own a Body— / I am afraid to own a Soul— / Profound—precarious Property— / Possession, not optional—” There it is, captured in four lines by Emily Dickinson, the human condition. This ...

CAMBRIDGE — What is the difference between clothing and costume? In the wardrobe department of Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater, it is a question Alycia Marucci navigates on a daily basis. Her ...

Fashion’s most anticipated night of the year arrives Monday, May 4, 2026, when celebrities, designers, and cultural figures ascend the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City ...

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