Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

Dress by Jun Takahashi

Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion is the 2024 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) which houses the collection of the Costume Institute. The exhibition was announced on November 8, 2023.[1] The exhibition was held at the museum from May 10 to September 2, 2024.[2] It featured approximately 250 items from the permanent collection of the Costume Institute that were displayed using AI and CGI with themes of sea, land, and sky as a metaphor for the fragility and ephemerality of fashion and a vehicle to examine the cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal.[3][4]

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  2. ^ "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases New Details About The Costume Institute's Spring 2024 Exhibition - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-05-09.
  3. ^ "Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, and Chris Hemsworth Are the 2024 Met Gala Co-Chairs". Vogue. February 15, 2024.
  4. ^ "The 2024 Met Gala theme has been announced". Harper's BAZAAR. February 15, 2024.