Category: exhibitions

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Costume Institute Blog

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has started a “blog exhibit” called blog.mode: addressing fashion. According to their website: “blog.mode: addressing fashion is the first in a series of shows designed to promote critical and creative dialogues about fashion. The exhibition presents some forty costumes and accessories dating from the eighteenth century to the present — all recent Metropolitan Museum acquisitions — and invites visitors to share their reactions online…” So far, they’ve featured one historic costume (out of three posts), and it looks like there are some other good things coming up (both historic and not).

In other news — sorry again for the radio silence! Dickens Fair has kicked my butt in terms of time and energy. I did do some distressing to my costume which looks good, but few pictures have surfaced since I’m wearing a non-shiny costume. This coming weekend is the last (thank god), so I hope to get some pictures then when my husband comes out to visit (plus I’ll be posing in the Dark Garden corset shop window!).

I did do a little bit of sewing this past weekend, but it’s for the secret Costume Con project so I can’t post about it. I think I’m going to do the two Costume Con projects at the same time, since one is un-secret and that way I’ll have something to post about around here!

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Misc. News Roundup

Things you may have heard elsewhere, but cross-posted here in order to be complete: the Complete Jane Austen will broadcast on PBS/Masterpiece Theatre beginning January 13, 2008. AustenBlog thinks they’ll probably start with the new ITV productions (Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey). See my reviews of all three on my Regency costume movie reviews page. Other productions will include the new Sense & Sensibility, along with the Kate Beckinsale Emma (1997) and 1995 Pride & Prejudice.

The auction catalog for the Tasha Tudor auction is now available from Whitaker Auctions. Cost is $45. I got mine the other day and it’s definitely worth getting. Tons of color photos of gorgeous garments; most are 1830s, but there are items from the 18th century through the 19th century.

And finally, lots of people have been sending around the link for the online costume galleries for the National Museum in Denmark. Tons of gorgeous color photos of various gowns (which will be integrated into the very-soon-coming Real Women’s Clothing Guide update), plus scaled patterns for some! If you’ve ever heard any of us discuss the Moden books, they’ve got scans of all the images and patterns from those books on this site. Very cool!

Finally, ye olde yard sale is still going strong. Lots of items still available – please email me if you’re interested in any. In about a week, I’ll put things on ebay, so now is your chance to get them for cheap.

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Poiret at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting an exhibition on designer Paul Poiret (he of the fabulous Orientalist designs of the 1910s). Oh to get to NYC! In the meantime, check out the exhibition details, some photos of the exhibition on Flickr, and what appears to be a Poiret-inspired photo shoot in the May 2007 issue of Vogue. I had a chance to flip through the hefty exhibition catalog at the Museum of Costume in Bath and can report that it looks really nicely done, and shall be at the top of my Christmas list this year. If anyone makes it, take lots of pictures!

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FIDM Movie Costume Exhibit

The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising’s Art of Motion Picture Costume Design opened yesterday, and while they only have a bit of practical information on their site, I just found a great video about the exhibit at ABC7.com, and an article about the exhibit at PE.com. There’s still no final list of what’s going to be there, but MARIE ANTOINETTE! PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN! (Doing the happy dance) Check out the video especially, as they do show some of the costumes on view.