Vogue & the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute 1st ed Bowles HCDJ

Description: Vogue & The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute: Parties Exhibitions Peopleby Hamish BowlesForeword by Thomas P. CampbellIntroduction by Anna WintourEdited by Chloe MalleNew York: Abrams, 2014ISBN 978419714245272 pages CONTENTS Foreward Thoma P. CampbellIntroduction by Anna Wintour Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years 2001Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed 2002Goddess: The Classical Mode 2003Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century 2004Chanel 2005Anglomania Traditions & Transgression in British Fashion 2006Poiret: King of Fashion 2007Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy 2008The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion 2009American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity 2010Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty 2011Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Conversations 2012Punk: Chaos to Couture 2013Charles James: Beyond Fashion 2014Photography CreditsAcknowledgements From front dust jacket flap: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring Costume Institute exhibition is the most spectacular event of it kind. The subjects explore fashion history, from 2001's Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years: to 2011's Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty and 2014's Charles James Beyond Fashion, and in turn reflect and create the contemporary zeitgeist. Each exhibit draws a provocative and engaging narrative attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. The show's opening-night gala produced in collaboration with Vogue magazine and attended by the likes of Beyonce, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, and Hillary Clinton is regularly referred to as The Party of the Year. Covering The Costume Institute's history and highlighting exhibitions of the twenty-first century curated by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, this book offers insider access of the first order. Anchored by photographs from the exhibitions themselves in tandem with the Vogue fashion shoots they inspired, it also includes images of exhibited objects and party photos from the galas. Drawn from the extensive Vogue archives, the featured stories showcase the photographs of such icons a Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, and Craig McDean: the vision of legendary Vogue fashion editors like Grace Coddington and Tonne Goodman and the knowledge and wit of writers such as Hamish Bowles and Jonathan Van Meter. From back dust jacket flap: Hamish Bowles is the international editor at large of Vogue and has worked for more than two deecates at the magazine, where he has written extensively on style and contemporary culture. In addition, he curated 'Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years" (2001) for the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Balenciaga: Spanish Master" (2010) at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, and "Balenciaga and Spain" (2011 at the de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Chloe Malle is the social editor of Vogue. Anna Wintour is the artistic director of Conde Nast and the editor in chief at Vogue. Thomas P. Campbell is the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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