'New Met exhibit examines American fashion, frame by frame'

03:34 Sep 30, 2023
'(2 May 2022)  RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS New York, 2 May 2022 1. Various \"Dress worn  by Mary Todd Lincoln 1861-62, altered late 19th Century\" in  \"In America: A Lexicon of Fashion\" 2. Tilt from information board reading\"Coat worn by George Washington. American ca 1780-1800\" to brown wool coat 3. Tilt from information board reading \"Brooks Brothers. Coat worn by Abraham Lincoln, 1865\" to black wool coat 4. Medium alternate angle coat in display case 5. Various Radha Blank exhibit featuring fashion by designer Maria Hollander  6. Various, \"American Fashion and French Style\" vignette 7. Various, Tom Ford exhibit  \"The Battle of Versailles\" 8. Various,  \"In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,\" exhibit 9. Various, Anne Lowe section of exhibit, by Julie Dash 10. Pan screen showing video exhibit by Janicza Bravo featuring fashions by designer Marguery Bolhagen 11. Various Janicza Bravo exhibit 12. Various, Julie Dash exhibit featuring fashions by designer Eta Hentz 13. various, Sofia Coppola exhibit featuring fashions by designer Lucie Monnay 14. Various Martin Scorsese exhibit focusing on couturier Charles James  15. Various Regina King exhibit featuring fashions by designer Fannie Criss 16. Wide shot  STORYLINE:  NEW MET EXHIBIT EXAMINES AMERICAN FASHION, FRAME BY FRAME Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one.    Take one of the famous American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and make essentially a one-frame movie with no camera: a tableau, not a film, but using your cinematic sensibility. Your actors are mannequins, and the costumes have been chosen for you.    “Create a one-frame movie in a period room? A great opportunity and an intriguing challenge,” the director writes in a statement next to his creation, a mysterious mix of characters, emotions and fashion in the museum’s striking Frank Lloyd Wright Room.    Eight other directors are also putting their stamp on the period rooms, for \"In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” the Met’s spring Costume Institute exhibit that will be launched with the Met Gala Monday (2 MAY 2022), 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.    The exhibit is the second part of a broader show on American fashion  to mark the Costume Institute’s 75th anniversary. Masterminded as usual by star curator Andrew Bolton, the new installment is both sequel and precursor to “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” which opened last September and is focused more on contemporary designers and establishing what Bolton calls a vocabulary for fashion. (The shows will run concurrently and close together in September.)    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.”    The nine directors were tapped to enliven the storytelling with their own varying aesthetics. In addition to Scorsese they include two of the Met Gala’s hosts Monday night - actor-director Regina King and designer-director Tom Ford. Also contributing are last year’s Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, Radha Blank, Janicza Bravo, Sofia Coppola, Julie Dash and Autumn de Wilde.                               Clients are reminded:   Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork  Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8d765a23427c4a01846d4811ec50cfb4' 

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