The Met Celebrates Women Designers Without Enough Reflection
this quarter (02/06/2024)
The Met Celebrates Women Designers Without Enough Reflection Skip to content Installation view of Women Dressing Women at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Women Dressing Women at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is an attempt to acknowledge a gap. Aside from retrospectives dedicated to Madame Grès and Rei Kawakubo, it’s the first in the Costume Institute’s history devoted entirely to female designers. Following a route from anonymity to visibility to agency, it aims to track the shifting position of designers within the fashion industry, and to recenter the roles of often uncredited women whose names are lost behind the couturier’s label.