Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fashion-meets-art soiree aka the Met Gala generates interest in anyone remotely interested in fashion or the arts. The annual event, which unravels in New York City, always has a theme and is attended by the biggest names from the world of fashion and entertainment.
Rei Kawakubo designs will be the focus of the 2017 Met Gala exhibit but the reclusive designer, according to reports,will probably stay away from the glamourous, star-studded affair.
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Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo will be the focus of the fashion exhibit.
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fashion-meets-art soiree aka the Met Gala generates interest in anyone remotely interested in fashion or the arts. The annual event, which unravels in New York City, always has a theme and is attended by the biggest names from the world of fashion and entertainment.
Met Gala 2017 honorary chair Katy Perry
This past week, it was announced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art that the theme for its annual Costume Institute exhibition and Met Gala will be Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons. While the official confirmation is here, this move was first predicted by ace fashion journalist Suzy Menkes during Paris Fashion Week. Discussing the Met exhibit, Menkes wrote in Vogue: “There is no designer today whose work is more worthy of exploration at museum level. But to be sure we will not be seeing the very private Kawakubo, who rarely comes out even for a bow, walking with the celebrities on the Met’s red carpet stairs in May 2017.”
According to Vogue, the Japanese designer is the “first living designer since Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 to be the sole subject of the Met’s blockbuster fashion exhibit.”
Andrew Bolton, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, speaking to Vogue.com, explained just why the famed designer was the sole focus of the exhibit. “Rei Kawakubo is one of the most important and influential designers of the past forty years,” Bolton told Vogue. “By inviting us to rethink fashion as a site of constant creation, recreation, and hybridity, she has defined the aesthetics of our time.”
The 2017 edition of the Met Gala will take place on May 1 with Kawakubo roped in as honorary chair alongside Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour. The exhibition will open on May 4.
