Kate Moss Joins Exhibition of World's Muses
Curator at Metropolitan Museum of Art says supermodels 'represent evolution of the feminine ideal'
Kate Moss, already painted nude by Lucian Freud and sculpted in gold by Marc Quinn, will further establish her place in art history this spring with the opening of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York exploring the role of the fashion model as artist's muse.
The exhibition will place supermodels including Naomi Campbell and Twiggy in the context of history's great muses, from figures depicted on hanging scrolls of Ming dynasty China to Degas's dancers, the Met director, Thomas Campbell, said.
He made the announcement in front of Peter Lindberg's 1990 British Vogue cover portrait of Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford. He was flanked by Anna Wintour and Marc Jacobs, sponsor of the exhibition, who took to the podium to quote Yves Saint Laurent: "A good model can advance fashion by 10 years."
Harold Koda, curator of the museum's costume institute, said the exhibition would show "how the great iconic beauties represent the evolution of the feminine ideal" over the past five decades.
One exhibition theme will be how, during the 1960s and 1970s, "the emergence of clothes which for the first time do not have the refuge of structure and underpinning within them made the model wearing them suddenly very key".
Jacobs singled out Moss as a "muse to a generation ... she defines a time, a feeling, that has become part of history".
The exhibition opens on 6 May.
The exhibition will place supermodels including Naomi Campbell and Twiggy in the context of history's great muses, from figures depicted on hanging scrolls of Ming dynasty China to Degas's dancers, the Met director, Thomas Campbell, said.
He made the announcement in front of Peter Lindberg's 1990 British Vogue cover portrait of Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford. He was flanked by Anna Wintour and Marc Jacobs, sponsor of the exhibition, who took to the podium to quote Yves Saint Laurent: "A good model can advance fashion by 10 years."
Harold Koda, curator of the museum's costume institute, said the exhibition would show "how the great iconic beauties represent the evolution of the feminine ideal" over the past five decades.
One exhibition theme will be how, during the 1960s and 1970s, "the emergence of clothes which for the first time do not have the refuge of structure and underpinning within them made the model wearing them suddenly very key".
Jacobs singled out Moss as a "muse to a generation ... she defines a time, a feeling, that has become part of history".
The exhibition opens on 6 May.
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