Karl Lagerfeld hated fashion exhibitions. “Fashion does not belong in a museum,” he once told Andrew Bolton, the curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It belongs in the street — on the backs of living women, not motionless mannequins.” “I have no interest in the past,” he added. “I’m only … Read more
Seven words from Karl Lagerfeld adorn a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s sumptuous new exhibit honoring the late, legendary designer: “Fashion does not belong in a museum.” Andrew Bolton, who masterminds the New York museum’s blockbuster Costume Institute shows each year, chuckled as he led a visitor through that doorway this weekend, a few days before … Read more
This Met Gala look landed AOC in the dog house — so it’s only fitting that a plucky pooch pays homage to it at an upcoming pet gala. Two-year-old Edna the Runt will strut her stuff in a mini version of the socialist pol’s “Tax the Rich” dress during the upcoming Griff Gala — a black-tie ‘paw’-ty … Read more
According to billionaire Leonard Stern, he is doing a “great thing” for art lovers in Greece and America. But some of Greece’s politicians, historians and art scholars beg to differ. At the center of this controversy is an esteemed collection of antiquities from the Cyclade islands, off of the Greek coast, dating back thousands of … Read more