The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion at the MET Muesum in NYC

The Met is having a special exbihit called
"The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion".
It's from May 6, 2009 to August 9, 2009.
The exhibit will be located on the 2nd floor in the Tisch Galleries.

"Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic models of the twentieth century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras. The exhibition, organized by historical period from 1947 to 1997, will feature haute couture and ready-to-wear masterworks accompanied by fashion photography and video footage of models who epitomized their epochs". (From the met)



( images from wwd John Aquino)

Poiret: King of Fashion

I highly recommend checking out the following at the MET. I did yesterday!

Poiret: King of Fashion
May 9, 2007–August 5, 2007
Special Exhibition Galleries, 1st floor

In the annals of fashion history, Paul Poiret (1879–1944), who called himself the "King of Fashion," is best remembered for freeing women from corsets and further liberating them through pantaloons. However, it was Poiret’s remarkable innovations in the cut and construction of clothing, made all the more remarkable by the fact that he could not sew, that secured his legacy. Working the fabric directly onto the body, Poiret helped to pioneer a radical approach to dressmaking that relied more on the skills of drapery than on those of tailoring. Focusing on his technical ingenuity and originality, the exhibition explores Poiret’s modernity in relation to and as an expression of the dominant discourses of the early 20th century, including Cubism, Classicism, Orientalism, Symbolism, and Primitivism.