Costume Institute's Spring 2018 exhibition to explore fashion and Catholicism
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will draw connections between religious art and contemporary couture for its next major fashion exhibition, to be designed by architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination will be a joint between The Met's Fifth Avenue location and The Met Cloisters ? the museum's satellite location at the northern tip of Manhattan, which exhibits medieval art.
Heavenly Bodies will look at the history of garments in Catholic art, like this 17th-century portrait of Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara
The exhibition will trace the history of garments depicted in Catholic art, and reveal how some of today's biggest designers have been influenced by the imagery and ideas presented in centuries of ecclesiastical artefacts. The Costume Institute, based at the museum, is partnering with The Met's Department of Medieval Art to organise the show.
The exhibition will also show examples of religious imagery used on contemporary couture, such as Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli's evening gown for Valentino, Spring Summer 2014
"Fashion and religion have long been intertwined, mutually inspiring and informing one another," said Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton. "Although this relationship has been complex and sometimes contested, it has produced some of the most inventive and innovative creations in the history of fashion."
For the show, a collection of papal robes and accessories...
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