| 22/05/2006 | Fashion | United States |
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AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
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| Posted by Michael Lebow | |
  May 3, 2006–September 4, 2006 The Annie Laurie Aitken Galleries The Metropolitan Museum of Art AngloMania focuses on British fashion from 1976 to 2006, a period of astounding creativity and experimentation. Over the past 30 years, British fashion has been defined by a knowing and self-conscious historicism. In their search for novelty, designers have looked to past styles with an appetite that is as audacious as it is rapacious. Focusing on their postmodern, historicizing tendencies, this exhibition presents a series of tableaux based on Britain’s rich artistic traditions. The irony of satirical prints, the romance of landscape paintings, and the glamour and bravado of grand manner portraits are evoked through a wide spectrum of British designers. The exhibition is set in the Metropolitan Museum’s English period rooms—the Annie Laurie Aitken Galleries—to create a potent dialogue between the past and the present _________________________________ The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10028-0198 Phone: 212-535-7710 TTY: 212-650-2921 www.metmuseum.org |