Also, doing so made logistical sense, given the pandemic restrictions on travel and loans; the museum equivalent of working from home is working from your own collections. Approximately 80 percent of the clothes in the show will come from the Met’s holdings, with only one garment originating outside the country.
Yet the exhibitions’ focus also reflects the more existential and political developments of the last year: debates over what it means to be American today and efforts to expose and grapple with racism.
Though the Costume Institute, and Mr. Bolton, have highlighted American fashion in the past, those shows took the form of either a single designer retrospective (the 2014 Charles James exhibition) or a more abstract endeavor like “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity” in 2010, which focused on American archetypes as interpreted by designers around the world. The current show, like those on China, Catholicism and Camp that have come to define Mr. Bolton’s t
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Poet laureate Amanda Gorman might host The Met Gala this year ANI | Updated: Apr 09, 2021 23:26 IST
Washington [US], April 9 (ANI): A glamorous party that was cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic will be back this year and the first youth poet laureate of the United States, Amanda Gorman has been approached to host the ceremony.
According to Page Six, the Met Gala event that marks the opening of the Costume Institute s annual fashion exhibit in the US will be returning on September 13 this year.
However, the big news that could drive more attention to the event is that American poet Amanda Gorman, who grabbed eyeballs with her inaugural poetry at President Joe Biden s swearing-in ceremony, has been approached to host Vogue s 2021 star-studded ceremony.