“Although this relationship has been complex and sometimes contested, it has produced some of the most inventive and innovative creations in the history of fashion.” “Fashion and religion have long been intertwined, mutually inspiring and informing one another,” Bolton said in a press release for the show. Photograph courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Digital Composite Scan by Katerina Jebb Forty pieces on loan from the Vatican will be on display, including papal vestments and accessories, 150 ensembles from couture designers, and religious masterpieces from the Met’s art collection.Ī golden evening dress from Gianni Versace's Autumn/Winter 1997–98 collection is one of the pieces that will be on display at the Met's new exhibit. Spreading from the dedicated halls of the fashion gallery into the Byzantine and medieval galleries of the main museum, then making a jump uptown to the Met Cloisters in Fort Tyron Park, the show will lead visitors on something of an artistic pilgrimage. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination opens on May 10 and will be the Costume Institute’s largest show to date.
In the latest blockbuster exhibition for the fashion wing of the museum, Bolton is shining a light on the ways in which the Vatican-led church and the fashion industry have influenced one another for over three centuries. Religion, after all, is predicated on ideas like faith, love, and acceptance that seem discordant with the glamor and materialism splashed across the pages of Vogue.īut Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is hoping to change that.
It may seem a little strange at first to consider the question of fashion and the Catholic Church.
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