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For that, as I learned, I would have to travel uptown to the Cloisters where the show continues. Though beautiful to look at Catholicism’s imprint on the clothes sometimes veered toward costume design without the sieve of the designer’s own psyche as interpreter. The Costume Institute’s Heavenly Bodies exhibit, which was housed at both the Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters, was the most-visited exhibit in the museum’s history, with 1,659,647 guests. There was plenty for designers to work with, Madonnas, angels, nuns, priests, and crosses, oh so many crosses. You might have heard that The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the one-millionth visitor to Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination on August 23rd making the exhibition the most attended ever sponsored by The Costume Institute and the show continues for another month. Fashion and religion seem like strange bedfellows but iconography and opulence weigh heavily in both. The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition has received record-breaking numbers of visitors since it opened on 10 May. In that case, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heavenly Bodies: Fashion And The Catholic Imagination exhibit will answer their prayers. I thought it would be hard to top the glory that was the Comme Des Garcons exhibit of 2017.but the Heavenly Bodies theme was beautiful. European designers dominate with Jean Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent and John Galliano well represented among others. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has released its final attendance figures for its exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the latest blockbuster show put. The costume exhibit at The Met, arranged annually by notorious H.B.I.C of Vogue, Anna Wintour, is the highlight of any fashionistas year (or maybe the nightmare of some close to it). The worlds biggest stars pulled out all the stops with their outfits for this year’s Met Gala, designed to fit the controversial Heavenly Bodies.
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The heart of Heavenly Bodies is artfully staged amongst the art in the Byzantine and medieval galleries on the first floor. Top photo Yves Saint Laurent Wedding Ensemble Fall/Winter 1977-78, above detail of a Vatican vestment Heavenly Bodies The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring 2018 Costume Institute exhibit is the largest in the museum. The highest of haute couture has nothing on the Vatican finery where jewels and intricate embroidery weave Catholic lore onto its sacred robes. 10 things to see at the Met’s 'Heavenly Bodies' exhibit, and what to know before you go. In the basement gallery are vestments on loan from the Vatican. This year’s Costume Institute exhibit, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, is the largest to date, spread out in three sites at two museums.