Met Gala 2022: Tom Ford, Regina King, Martin Scorsese and Chloé Zhao Among Filmmakers Tapped for Companion Exhibit
variety.comAngelique Jackson As the Met Gala sets its return to the first Monday in May, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans for the 2022 spring exhibition themed “In America: An Anthology of Fashion.”The Met curators, led by Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu curator in charge of the Costume Institute, have enlisted eight film directors —- Janicza Bravo, Sofia Coppola, Julie Dash, Tom Ford, Regina King, Martin Scorsese, Autumn de Wilde and Chloé Zhao — to help bring the exhibition to life.“Anthology” is the second of a two-part presentation saluting designers and dressmakers who worked in the United States from the 19th to the mid-late 20th century.
It follows Part One, titled “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” which opened in September 2021. “Part Two, which explores the foundations of American fashion in relation to the complex histories of the American Wing period rooms, serves as a preface to the concise dictionary of American fashion presented in Part One,” Bolton stated in a release announcing the project.Presented in collaboration with The Met’s American Wing, this second installation will feature approximately 100 examples of men’s and women’s dress within the American Wing’s historical interiors.Each director will design cinematic vignettes, or “freeze frames,” to accompany each period room’s theme.
Bravo will create work for the Rococo Revival Parlor and Gothic Revival Library; Coppola in the McKim, Mead and White Stair Hall and Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room; Dash in the Greek Revival Parlor and Renaissance Revival Room; Ford in the gallery showcasing John Vanderlyn’s panoramic 1819 mural of Versailles that will reportedly touch on fashion’s own Battle of Versailles; King will.
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