Set designer Es Devlin has created two clock-like gallery spaces for the latest fashion exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which compares design over 150 years.
The Met's Costume Institute opens About Time: Fashion and Duration at the museum's Fifth Avenue location on 29 October ?  the original planned opening in May 2020 was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Featured fashion dates back 150 years to 1870 to coincide with The Met's 150th anniversary. Rather than presenting designs chronologically, the exhibition mixes up the timeline in order to compare the cyclical nature of fashion across the years.
Above image: the all-bacl Clock One gallery space. Top image: the mirrored Clock Two gallery space
"About Time: Fashion and Duration considers the ephemeral nature of fashion, employing flashbacks and fast-forwards to reveal how it can be both linear and cyclical," said The Met director Max Hollein. "The result is a show that presents a nuanced continuum of fashion over the museum's 150-year history."
Devlin, who has created stage sets for musicians The Weekend and Katy Perry, worked with The Met's Design Department to create a time-travelling-themed exhibition.
White markings or light divide galleries into 60 "minutes"
It is located in two galleries in the museum's Iris and B Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall that are in a circular formation like a clock. Called Clock One and Clock Two, they have different material finish...