Ultimately, in this attractive-looking exhibition, you don’t learn enough about the modeling experience as it played out in the late 20th century really to care... By the time you reach the last rooms of “The Model as Muse,” in the ’80s and ’90s, you might as well be flipping through the pages of a fashion magazine, so random and arbitrary are the conclusions...What goes unaddressed is the change from film to digital photography, and how that affected sittings and the dynamics of the photographer-model relationship. It’s the sort of elemental question the curators should have asked. Instead they seem guilty of the grossest fashion sin: wanting to hang out with the models.
"Perhaps More Than Just Pretty Faces", Cathy Horyn for The New York Times2009 Costume Institute Gala
Quote Of The Day: Cathy Horyn Criticizes The Model As Muse Exhibition
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"The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion" Costume Institute Gala
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The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion
This morning we attended a press conference for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute 2009 exhibition entitled, "The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion". We'll be bringing you red carpet photos from tonight's gala but check out our first look inside the exhibition itself. As stated by The Costume Institute, the exhibition "explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideas of beauty, focusing on iconic fashion models in the latter half of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras.".
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I feel very flattered, honored and proud to be associated with anything to do with this beautiful museum, this wonderful institution that I grew up with being a New Yorker, and very grateful have been asked to participate, for me, I mean, this is a dream come true.
Marc Jacobs at the press conference for "The Model As Muse: Emobdying Fashion". 05/04/09.Fashion In 50 Seconds 04/30/09 Met Gala Rumors & More
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