For the new spring fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, nine film directors have put their stamp on the museum's American period rooms, constructing vignettes that are essentially one-frame movies.
, opening to the public on May 7. Guests at the gala, which raises millions for the self-funding institute and has become a major fashion and pop culture spectacle, will be among the first see the displays.
If the new"Anthology" show is meant to provide crucial historical context, it also seeks to find untold stories and unsung heroes in early American fashion, especially female designers, and especially those of color. Many of their stories, Bolton said when announcing the show,"have been forgotten, overlooked, or relegated to a footnote in the annals of fashion history."
For King, the Richmond Room, depicting early 19th-century domestic life for wealthy Virginians, provided a chance to highlight Black designer Fannie Criss Payne, who was born in the late 1860s to formerly enslaved parents and became a top local dressmaker. She was known for stitching a name tape into her garments to"sign" her work - part of an emerging sense of clothes-making as a creative endeavor.
Filmmaker Radha Blank looks at Maria Hollander, founder of a clothing business in the mid-19th century in Massachusetts who used her business success to advocate for abolition and women's rights. In the museum's Shaker Retiring Room, director Zhao connects with the minimalist aesthetic of 1930s sportswear designer Claire McCardell.
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