Kate Moss to co-chair Costume Institute gala
By
Hilary Alexander
29/10/2008
The British supermodel, Kate Moss, will play a starring role at the head of an unprecedented cast of a century of models at the next Costume Institute Gala Benefit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The event, regarded as the Big Apple’s party of the year and one which now rivals even Hollywood’s Oscars night for style and splendour, will feature the American designer Marc Jacobs as honorary chair. Kate Moss will join the singer, Justin Timberlake and the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour, as co-chairs.
The gala evening ushers in the museum’s spring 2009 exhibition which takes the theme, appropriately, of ‘The Model as Muse’.
The exhibition will explore the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and the evolving ideals of beauty. It will focus on iconic fashion models of the 20th century and their roles in projecting and sometimes inspiring the fashion of their respective eras. “The exhibition will examine a timeline of fashion over the past 100 years through the paradigm of the fashion model,” said Harold Koda, curator in charge of the Met’s Costume Institute.
“We look at the power of clothing, fashion photography and the model to project the look of an era. With a mere gesture, or the line of her body, a truly stellar model can sum up the attitude of her time, creating an alluring synergy between herself and the clothing to communicate a designer’s message to the wider world.”
The exhibition will showcase some 70 fascinating examples of haute couture and ready-to-wear design. Fashion editorial, advertising and catwalk photography, together with video footage of models, actresses, socialites and rock stars that epitomize their eras, will emphasise the message.
The exposition will trace the evolution of the model from Marion Morehouse - photographed by Edward Steichen and one of the first models known to the public by name - through to the emergence of the ‘superwaif’, embodied by Kate Moss.
Other models to be featured include Lisa Fonssagrives (the wife of photographer, Irving Penn), Suzy Parker, Dovima, Jean Shrimpton, Veruschka, Twiggy, Jerry Hall, the ‘supermodel trinity’ of Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell, and, more recently, the Brazilian Bombshell, Gisele Bundchen.
Designers whose work will be featured in the exhibition include Azzedine Alaia, Giorgio Armani - honorary chair of this year’s gala and exhibition ‘SuperHeroes: Fashion and Fantasy’ - Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Hussein Chalayan, Chanel, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Jacques Fath, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Gucci, Halston, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Rei Kawakubo, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen, Claude Montana, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Vivienne Westwood and Yohji Yamamoto.
The photographers whose work will be featured reads like a roll call of fashion’s front row in focus, and includes Avedon, Bailey, Penn, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier and Bruce Weber.
The exhibition is organised by Harold Koda and guest co-curator, Kohle Yohannan. The Academy Award-winning production designer and art director for films such as ‘Dreamgirls’, ‘Chicago’ and ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’, John Myhre, is the creative consultant.
The exhibition will be open to the public from May 6th to August 9th, 2009. For more information visit
www.metmuseum.org
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