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25 years married to this great guy! We celebrated with a trip to New York and of course, I took my sketchbook with me. One of the highlights of our weekend was the big exhibit at the Met, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. According to the catalogue, it is "a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism." Curators have placed runway style models and piped in moody church music throughout the Medieval art collections at the main museum and in the Cloisters.
one of the wonderful contrast moments at the Cloisters (photo from catalogue)
a page from my little sketchbook with some of my favorite themes: fashion inspired by monastic robes, Bishop's regalia and Byzantine church mosaics; I used some washi tape to add the folded gallery guide and the tag from the gorgeous scarf that I took home as a souvenir of the trip
The Heavenly Bodies show is quite a spectacle and worth a visit. Bravo to the Met for doing something different and creative - making us see fashion and art in a new context. If you can't make it to New York, here are links to see the exhibition galleries at the main Met and at the Cloisters. (when you get to the webpage, scroll down to see all the photos.)
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