#Heavenly bodies met code

#Heavenly bodies met code

And, indeed, being there is like being in the middle of a Catholic movie, like The Da Vinci Code with Dior dresses.Ĭhristian Lacroix Haute Couture wedding dress (2009) As the brochure explains 'it unfolds as a series of short stories told through conversations between religious artwork on the MET collection and fashions of the twentieth and twenty-first century'.

And all this, obviously, has affected the way we look at fashion, including the way we see the setting of exhibitions like Heavenly Bodies, a project that has all the compliments of the industry but, if you look closely, you end up under the impression that it is more about its grandiose ambitions than what it really intakes.Ĭurated by Andrew Bolton, Heavenly Bodies shows how Catholicism, a religion under many designers from our days were raised, influenced their work. Melissa and I completed our first year of the Master of Arts in Fashion Studies, a discipline that has helped us understand the roots of fashion theory and how those theories connect with all the things we wear and that other people wear every day. Heavenly Bodies is available through October 8th at the MET Why am I telling you all this? Because this time, my visit to the museum to see the exhibition dedicated to the influence of Catholic church in fashion made me realize that it has been a while, and it also made me think of how much has changed in that while, and thanks to the knowledge. Due to logistic reasons (I moved to New York after it closed) I couldn't see the 2017 exhibition, so when it was the time to see Heavenly Bodies, I just couldn't wait.

I still remember how excited we were for walking into the Museum and be able to see the Manus x Machina exhibition in 2016. Our first exhibition from the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, was exactly two years ago.