This exhibition
explores the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion and how China has
fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute and
the Department of Asian Art, high fashion is juxtaposed with
Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, including films, to
reveal enchanting reflections of Chinese imagery.
From the earliest period of European
contact with China in the sixteenth century, the West has been enchanted with
enigmatic objects and imagery from the East, providing inspiration for fashion
designers from Paul Poiret to Yves Saint Laurent, whose fashions are infused at
every turn with romance, nostalgia, and make-believe. Through the looking glass
of fashion, designers conjoin disparate stylistic references into a pastiche of
Chinese aesthetic and cultural traditions.
The exhibition features more than
140 examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear alongside Chinese
art. Filmic representations of China are incorporated throughout to reveal how
our visions of China are framed by narratives that draw upon popular culture,
and also to recognize the importance of cinema as a medium through which to
understand the richness of Chinese history.
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/china-through-the-looking-glass
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