Metropolitan Clothing Exhibition: Fashion Changes Over The Past 300 Years

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Only halfway, the organizers announced the autumn exhibition to be opened in November, called the masterpiece: Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion.

The protagonist is the fashion change that has lasted for more than 300 years since eighteenth Century.

Compared with most of the metropolis that most people have heard of

Great exhibitions and autumn exhibitions are not dominant in terms of reputation or quantity of exhibits.

The 60 exhibits are collections collected by museums over the past ten years.

The focus is on the fashion profile, technology, fashion and fabric. Each item will be accompanied by an explanatory text describing the prevailing fashion direction.

Viktor Rolf 2010 spring summer series

"We need to interpret fashion as an existing art to interpret history and show its impact on later art," Andrew Bolton, director of the clothing Institute of Metropolitan Museum of Art, told a press conference.

Since 1946, when the clothing Institute formally entered Metropolitan Museum of Art, its collection strategy gradually changed from encyclopedia to masterpiece.

Up to now, the number of clothing and accessories has reached 35 thousand.

The curator of the autumn exhibition is Jessica Regan, which focuses on fashion in 18 and nineteenth Century.

Graduated from University College London, and has been an intern since 2001.

The most famous work since its entry is the 2014 Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, jointly designed by Harold Koda, the dean of the metropolitan garment Institute.

After the official launch in November 8th, visitors will see Maison Margiela's 2015 dress from the incumbent.

The hand of John Galliano.

With it, there will be Crist BAL Balenciaga in 1964, Halston in 1980s, and Vionnet in 1930s.

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The duration of the exhibition is expected to be 3 months. In addition to the above designers, the metropolis has also specially selected a group of innovators in fashion history, such as Azzedine Ala a, Hussein Chalayan, Tom Ford, Jean Paul Gaultier, and in the era of Sarah era.

Sitting in wait for 3 months, we might as well preview how fashion evolved from eighteenth Century to what we are familiar with now.

If the seventeenth Century fashion revolves around the French Sun King Louis Xiv (1638-1715), the most famous "deficit lady" in history, Queen Marie (1755-1793), is the trend vane of eighteenth Century.

In order to ensure that she can make perfect appearances at the salon activities in the palace, the queen recruited the civilian seamstress into the palace to be responsible for the fashion.

Queen Marie in the movie "after all"

At that time, the Rococo wind became popular and the form reached its peak.

The tall wig bun, corset, and skirt rest are the basic standard.

Of course, after the outbreak of the great revolution, the suit was reduced to an iron proof that the monarchy was extravagant and costly.

Since nineteenth Century, all the ladies have begun to wear neoclassicism to show their boundaries with Baroque or Rococo's pitional decoration.

The popular fabric is white cotton cloth from England.

Since the industrial revolution in 1760, the British textile technology has made remarkable progress. Factories use cotton imported from India to produce thin cotton fabrics with high yarn content, such as fine cotton cloth, yarn and Luo.

Under the influence of classicism, this thin cotton fabric replaced the gorgeous silk fabric of the past.

The most representative clothing is the shirt dress, made of white cotton cloth, the style is loose, simple and simple.

But women's love for lace, wrinkles and curves can hardly be obliterated.

After Napoleon became emperor, the aristocratic interest became popular again, and the dress with high waistline began to rise again.

Ladies always like to lower the square neckline to show their charming chest.

As the waist becomes smaller and smaller, the sleeves and skirts will develop wider, sometimes even using baleen and metal wire as padding.

The skirt changed from bell type to birdcage type, then pformed from Pyramid type to rear warped type.

It was not until the turn of the century that women began to shake off their skirt.

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After entering the twentieth Century, as women were called to participate in various social movements, women's wear lines tended to be straight, and the chest, waist and buttocks became fashionable.

When the first World War broke out, skirts began to shorten and thin, exposing their feet and joints, allowing women to walk around, and women's work clothes also came into being.

The two World War not only restricted embroidery, leather, fur, but also made the styles more and more close to military uniform, such as wide shoulder pads and tight belts.

After 1950s, designers headed by Christian Dior and Crist BAL Balenciaga led fashion to revive.

The hippie culture and the tidal wave of the moon formed the theme of the 1960s. Short skirts, neutral dress and plastic materials were flooded with streets in various countries.

Ten years later, punk culture in London has produced all kinds of "bad taste" such as leather jackets, tights, rivets, piercing and so on.

After these times, young people entering the fashion design industry have made this market more diversified.

To this day, you may be able to summarize the fashion elements on every fashion week, but if you want to summarize the popularity of the past ten years, it has basically become impossible.