Summer in the City

Visit a collection of catwalk queens. Opening today, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion exhibit features fashion photography and video of iconic models and the couture they've inspired. The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion May 6, 2009–August 9, 2009 The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic models of the twentieth century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras. The exhibition, organized by historical period from 1947 to 1997, will feature haute couture and ready-to-wear masterworks accompanied by fashion photography and video footage of models who epitomized their epochs.

House of Chanel (French, founded 1913) Karl Lagerfeld (French, b. Germany, 1938)Ensemble, spring/summer 1992White cotton knit and black silk tulleThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Chanel, 1993

Peter Lindbergh (German, b. 1944)Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford in Giorgio di Sant'Angelo, Vogue British, January 1990

House of Dior (French, founded 1947) by John Galliano (British, b. Gibraltar, 1960)"Lucky" Evening Gown, haute couture fall/winter 2005–2006

Loomis Dean (American, 1917–2005)Cabine of Christian Dior, 1957

Museum Hours

Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays)Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m

Address

1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street

New York, New York 10028-0198

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