July, 1st, 2014

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Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire.

The Costume Institute’s first fall exhibition in seven years, will be on view in The @MetMuseum of Art’s #AnnaWin tour #Costume Center from Oc tober 21, 2014 through February 1, 2015. The #exhibition will explore the #aesthetic development and #cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Approximately 30 ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, will reveal the impact of high-fashion st andards on the sar torial dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved over a century.

With the reopening of The Costume Institute space in May as the Anna Win tour Costume Center, the department returns to mounting two special exhibitions a year, to again include a fall show, in addition to the major spring exhibition. This is the first fall exhibition The Costume Institute has organized since blog.mode: addressing fashion in 2007.

“The pre dominantly black palette of mourning dramatizes the evolution of period silhouettes and the increasing absorption of fashion ideals in to this most codified of etiquettes,” said #HaroldKoda Cura tor in Charge of The Costume Institute, who is curating the exhibition with #JessicaRegan Assistant Cura tor. “The veiled wi dow could elicit sympathy as well as preda tory male advances. As a woman of sexual experience without marital constraints, she was often imagined as a potential threat to the social order.”

Oc tober 21, 2014–February 1, 2015
Anna Win tour Costume Center
#NewYork #TheMet