This year’s Met Gala, held, as always, on the first Monday in May, raised $42m for the Costume Institute, the department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses some 33,000 objects from the last six centuries of fashion. The gala’s theme was ‘Fashion is Art’, which chimes with the Institute’s promotion from the basement of the Met building to the newly created Condé M. Nast Galleries just off the Great Hall, where it has three times as much room as before. To mark their opening, the Met is putting on an exhibition of some 200 objets de mode ranging from antiquity to the present day (10 May–10 January 2027). The show is organised by body type, including the naked body, the abstracted body, the disabled body and the ‘corpulent body’, and brings together objects held by the Costume Institute and by the Met’s other departments. This allows for some playful juxtapositions: a suit Glenn Martens designed for Y/Project’s Fall/Winter 2022–23 show, for instance, pairs well with a remnant of a marble Diadoumenos statue dating from the 1st or 2nd century.
Find out more from the Met’s website.
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