The New York Times has an amazing article on the Costume Institute’s current exhibition, Heavenly Bodies, that includes an incredible collection of photos. The exhibition looks epic and features 150 religious outfits from the last century, including ‘space-age brides, monastic couture, angels in gold lamé, and a choir up in the balcony dressed in head-to-toe Balenciaga,’ – as well as robes from the Vatican that apparently have never left Rome.
I love the sound of how it’s set out, so it’s scattered though the Met Museum, rather than set out in a few connecting rooms. It runs from The Met’s downstairs hall to the Byzantine and medieval galleries and into the Lehman Wing…
…continuing up at The Met Cloisters, the museum’s home for religious art in Upper Manhattan.
Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination runs through to 8 October.
(Photos by Vincent Tullo for The New York Times)
