The article discusses the unveiling of the new 12,000-square-foot Costume Institute galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which elevate fashion from its previous basement location to a prominent position at the museum's entrance, signaling a shift in the perception of fashion as a vital and integral part of art, exemplified by the opening exhibition "Costume Art" that connects fashion with various art forms and bodily experiences. #Fashion #Art #CostumeDesign #US #GB #FR #IT #TR #GR #EG
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A Fashion Revolution at the Met
Vanessa Friedman is the fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times.
Fashion has always sat uncomfortably in the great art institutions of the West, the question of whether it belonged under the same roof as masterworks and heroic marbles a subject of perennial debate.