Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Exhibit
Stop everything. I have found my heaven-The Model as muse Exhibit!  I was invited by a friend to accompany all of the other fashion journalists and writers for a sneak peek of a preview of the Muse as Model exhibit which officially opens May 6, after the most famous A list celebrities join together for the party of the year, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Gala hosted by Marc Jacobs and of course the ever present Anna Wintour.

The exhibit is a must see-not a maybe-but a MUST SEE.  I have attended every fashion exhibit at the Costume Institute and without a doubt I can say this one is the best.  The exhibit hits every one of your senses, visually the clothes are beautiful, the movies playing in the background from each period combined with each era’s most popular and hit song that sums up the decade gave me goose bumps.  Mannequins hang from the wall like pinatas, or mechanical churning in circles on large metal discs -leaving me mesmorized and in a trance I never want broken. Each room is dedicated to an era and not only do you learn about the most influential muses throughout fashions history, the set design and ambience unconsciously spell out what was going on at each time in history, documenting various movements through clothing, music, models, movies-which is truly what fashion does-it reflects politically, socially, culturally and economically what is going on at a particular time.  This exhibit proves fashion is not just clothing, but muses, movies, music, and how fashion penetrates all these various arenas.

I snuck my way into the press conference stealing a seat next to Valerie Steele (FIT) and Suzy Menkes (IHT).  I sat up close so that I not only got a clear shot of the podium but was also able to check out the crowd.  First the museum’s director spoke thanking both Anna Wintour and Marc Jacobs for sponsoring this event, and through this funding, the following Costume Institutes exhibit.  Marc Jacobs spoke about how important the Met is to him; both as a research library and the ability to exhaust the private archives with his team. And as the director had said, his one wish for the exhibit was to make sure it was “lively.”  They certainly did. I felt complete europhia and like I had magically time warped into  a fantastical mystical bubble of creativity. As tears of joy dropped down my chin the curator exclaimed, “We have our first cryer!”  When I die this is where I want to go.