Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

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Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination was the 2018 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) which houses the collection of the Costume Institute.[1][2][3]

The exhibition was held from May 10, 2018, to Oct 8, 2018. 1,659,647 people viewed the exhibit, making it the most visited exhibition in the museum's history.[4] The theme for the Met Gala in 2018, May 7th, was Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination and their goal was to highlight the influence of religion and liturgical vestments on fashion from designers like Donatella Versace, Cristobal Balenciaga, and etc. By placing fashion within “the broader context of religious artistic production” (like paintings and architecture), Costume Institute curator in charge Andrew Bolton, working alongside colleagues from the Met's medieval department and the Cloisters, aims to show how “material Christianity” has helped form “the Catholic imagination.” [5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Exhibition info". www.metmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
  2. ^ Farago, Jason; Mclaughlin, Ariana (May 9, 2018). "'Heavenly Bodies' Brings the Fabric of Faith to the Met" – via NYTimes.com.
  3. ^ Borrelli-Persson, Laird. "Met Gala 2018 Theme Revealed: "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination"". Vogue. Archived from the original on 2021-02-19. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  4. ^ "1,659,647 Visitors to Costume Institute's Heavenly Bodies Show at Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters Make It the Most Visited Exhibition in The Met's History". www.metmuseum.org.press. Archived from the original on 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
  5. ^ https://www.vogue.com/article/met-gala-2018-theme-heavenly-bodies-fashion-and-the-catholic-imagination


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