Highlights from the 2024 Met Gala exhibit: Sleeping Beauty would wake up for these gowns

(6 May 2024)
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New York – 6 May 2024
1. Various of pans of dress inside exhibit
2. Various of dress made from silk butterflies
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
“The main theme is about reawakening garments in the collection through the senses, so through smell, through touch conceptually, through hearing. Because when a garment enters the Met's collection, all of those senses are compromised. It just becomes a life is a work of art, so you can appreciate it in the way that it's meant to be appreciated as a living art form. So the idea was really to resuscitate these garments and bring the sort of sensorial capacities back into them.”
4. Various of museum guests smelling, touching displays
5. Tight of sign reading “Smell but do not touch the tubes”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
“The garments date from the 17th century, early 17th century through to the present day. So there's an enormous range and scope of garments and accessories. It's one of the first shows we've done for many years that has over 50 accessories in the exhibition.”
7. Various pans of accessories
8. Various pans of dress
9 . SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
“So we work with an incredible small artist called Sissel Tolaas, and she actually collected molecular readings, smell molecules from garments. So when you, you're smelling the actual garments, you're smelling the olfactory history of a garment, who wore it where she lived, or he, what they ate, what they drank, what they smoked. So that's really interesting. It's really the olfactory history of a garment.”
10. Pan of exhibit
11. Various of dress at exhibit
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
“In a way they sort of selected themselves, the garments because they're all from our permanent collection. We have over 33,000 pieces in our collection, and we have about 220 on display. So not, not a huge amount, but yeah, a fraction of what we have.”
13. Various pans of dresses at exhibit
STORYLINE:
Sure, she was a royal princess and all. But there’s no way Sleeping Beauty ever had quite the fabulous wardrobe that’s been assembled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” is the Costume Institute exhibit that debuts at Monday’s Met Gala.

It's centered on 16 fragile garments that have been slumbering and cannot be displayed upright. But there are 220 items in total in the huge nature-themed, multisensory show that curator Andrew Bolton says is one of the museum's most ambitious yet.

The show opens to the public Friday and runs through Sept. 2. 

AP Video shot by Aron Ranen

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