Fashion "flashbacks and fast-forwards" will be the theme of next year's major fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with exhibition design by Es Devlin.
Called About Time: Fashion and Duration, the spring 2020 exhibition at the Met's Costume Institute will explore the nature of time. It will form part of the museum's 150-year anniversary celebrations.
Set designer Es Devlin will work with the design department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to create the exhibition, which opens in May next year.
Spanning more than a century and a half, the exhibition will guide visitors through fashion from 1870 to the present, and back again.
"This exhibition will consider the ephemeral nature of fashion, employing flashbacks and fast-forwards to reveal how it can be both linear and cyclical," said Max Hollein, director of The Met. Surreal is a fashion photo by David Bailey that riffs on Salvador Dali's melting clock
Most of the 160 items in the show will be taken from the The Costume Institute's extensive collection.
By contrasting black and white outfits, the exhibition will move away from a traditional, chronological order that breaks fashion history down into a history of silhouettes.
The black outfits will follow a linear progression from 1870 ? the year the Met was founded ? to the present. Juxtaposed ensembles in white, made before or after the black pieces but sharing a motif, silhouette, material or technique, will offer a counter...