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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Last Chance: Costume Institute Exhibition "Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion" Closes Sunday, Feb. 5

Ball Gown, Viktor & Rolf (Dutch, founded 1993), spring/summer 2010; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2011 (2011.8) © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen

The Costume Institute's Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion Closes on Sunday, February 5

Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion, The Costume Institute's fall 2016 exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue, closes on Sunday, February 5.

The exhibition, curated by Assistant Curator Jessica Regan with support from Curator in Charge Andrew Bolton, explores how the department has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality, including iconic works by designers who have changed the course of fashion history and advanced fashion as an art form.

The exhibition highlights approximately 60 of these masterworks from the early 18th century to the present, which The Costume Institute has acquired since its last acquisitions show, blog.mode: addressing fashion, in 2007.

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