The Met's Next Costume Institute Exhibit Explores 'Costume Art' – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips November 17, 2025 at 09:36PM
📰 The Met's Next Costume Institute Exhibit Explores 'Costume Art'
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On Monday morning, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute revealed the theme for its next fashion exhibit: "Costume Art," which will "examine the concept of the dressed body across art and fashion history," Max Hollein, The Met's Marina Kellen French Director and CEO, shared during the exhibit's announcement.
"In most exhibitions where fashion is displayed alongside artworks, visitors are encouraged to engage in a disembodied view of fashion through the lens of art," Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute's curator in charge, said during the exhibit's announcement on Monday morning. "In 'Costume Art,' the tables are turned as visitors will be invited to view the artworks through the lens of the dressed body. The dressed body will become the prism through which the artworks are to be viewed, serving as a central unifying thread throughout the exhibition, as indeed it is throughout the museum."
"Costume Art" will primarily focus on Western art from prehistory to the present, and will be organized into a series of thematic body types including the "Naked Body," "Classical Body," "Pregnant Body," "Aging Body," "Anatomical Body" and the "Mortal Body." The exhibit aims to highlight the relationship between clothing and the body, while spanning more than 5,000 years of art in The Met's collection.
During the exhibit's announcement at The Met on Monday, celebrated ballet dancer Misty Copeland remarked that the show "makes a powerful case for the body in all its forms as a work of art worthy of being seen, elevated and celebrated."
"Rather than prioritizing fashion's visuality, which often comes at the expense of the corporeal, 'Costume Art' privileges its materiality and the indivisible connection between our bodies and the clothes we wear," Bolton said in a statement.
Coinciding with the exhibit's launch, the Met is opening nearly 12,000-square-foot galleries to display the Costume Institute's annual spring exhibitions. The new galleries, which will be named after Condé Montrose Nast who founded his eponymous publishing company housing Vogue, will feature four spaces, with the first and last connecting to the Met's Great Hall.
To celebrate the launch of the Costume Institute's "Costume Art" exhibit, next year's Met Gala will be held on May 4, 2026. The gala's co-chairs and its honorary chair will be announced at a later date. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are funding the exhibition and benefit.
Following the Met Gala on the first Monday in May, "Costume Art" will run from May 10, 2026 through Jan. 10, 2027.
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