The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that the 2011 edition of its tony "Met Ball" — as Vogue's annual Costume Institute Gala at the museum is known — will take as its inspiration the work of the late British designer Alexander McQueen, an art collector himself whose gilt-and-brocade final collection was inspired by Old Master paintings. The May 2nd gala event, co-chaired by PPR chief François-Henri Pinault and his wife, Salma Hayek, along with Anna Wintour, Stella McCartney, and Colin Firth, will be followed by an exhibition of the radical fashion designer life's work, scheduled to run from May 4 to July 31 under the title "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty."
Over 100 pieces will be included in the show, from the 1992 collection that McQueen presented as his Central St. Martins graduate thesis to ensembles created for Givenchy in the 90s and items he crafted for his friend, the late queen of style Isabella Blow. Hats and jewels he produced with such collaborators as Philip Treacy and Shaun Leane will also be exhibited, along with his celebrated last collection, which was premiered posthumously.
"His catwalk presentations were outstanding and straddle art and fashion," Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton told Women's Wear Daily. "We want to get across two elements — the spectacle of the runway presentations and the beauty of his craftsmanship."
"Savage Beauty" will be arranged not chronologically but around themes, including "The Savage Mind," "Romantic Gothic," "Romantic Nationalism," "Romantic Exoticism," and "Romantic Primitivism." Sam Gainsbury and Joseph Bennett, who produced many of McQueen's over-the-top runway shows (think paint-flinging robots) will serve as creative consultants for the exhibition and the red carpet extravaganza, which is always a kind of better-dressed, art-touting version of the Oscars, jam-packed with more stars than the Milky Way.
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