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A brilliant exploration of fashions complex engagement with the great art and artifacts of Catholic faith and practiceSince antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the masterworks of art. These works of art have, in turn, fueled the imagination of fashion designers in the 20th and 21st centuries, yielding some of the most innovative creations in costume history. Connecting significant religious art and artifacts to their sartorial expressions, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination provides a critical analysis of fashions engagement with notions of the divine. Exploring fashions complex and often controversial relationship with Catholicism, Heavenly Bodies probes what dress reveals about the state of religion and spirituality within contemporary culture, and how it may manifestor subvertCatholic values and ideology. Art objects, such as devotional paintings and altarpieces from The Mets collection, are presented alongside fashions from designers including Cristbal Balenciaga, Callot Soeurs, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, John Galliano, JeanPaul Gaultier, Madame Grs, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeanne Lanvin, Claire McCardell, Alexander McQueen, Thierry Mugler, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Gianni Versace. The volume also presents a selection of ecclesiastical vestments and accessories from the Vatican collection, many of which have not been published before.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art(05/10/1810/07/18)
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