Chloé Zhao (left), Martin Scorsese (Cred: Elle/NYT)
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will bring their spring 2022 exhibition, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion”, to life with the help of eight film directors, including alumni Martin Scorsese and Chloé Zhao.
“Anthology”, as reported by Variety, 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. Met curator Andrew Bolton says, “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.”
Each director will design cinematic vignettes, or “freeze frames,” to accompany each period room’s theme. Scorsese’s is in a 20th-century living room designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, while Zhao’s is in a Shaker Retiring Room from the 1830s. They will design rooms alongside Janicza Bravo, Sofia Coppola, Julie Dash, Tom Ford, Regina King and Autumn de Wilde.
Read more at Variety.