Fashion Designer Zac Posen and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Charles James exhibition co-curator Jan Glier Reeder will be discussing James’s glamour, technique, and enduring impact on fashion in general, and on Posen in particular on June 22, 2014.  From elements in Posen’s first collection to gowns he designed for certain guests at this year’s Met Gala, his work has been said to have often been inspired by James.  At this event, Posen will provide his opinion on James’s draping, cut, and ubiquitous rule-breaking

When: Sunday, June 22, 3:00–4:30 p.m.

Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Cost: This event is free with museum admission

The press preview of this fascinating costume exhibit was last month, and security was tight because Michelle Obama had been there earlier that morning to cut the ribbon for the new Anna Wintour Costume Center.

I was happy to share this experience with my daughter, Sarah, an FIT student and a bloggist for the TU’s This is College!?. At the Met  previews I previously attended, I’d walk right inside through the left bottom level entrance, check in, and then wait for the preview to begin. However, this time we were all required to wait outside a bit at another entrance to allow a line of who’s who in the fashion industry who had attended the ribbon cutting event to file out of the building and onto Fifth Avenue.

 

I asked Ralph Lauren what he thought about the costume collection, but he replied that the ceremony had taken place farther away at the Temple of Dendur, and that he hadn’t had the opportunity to see it yet.

 

The exhibit is located in two separate areas of the museum and, to view some of it, we were guided past the preparations for that night’s famous Costume Gala.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles James, was a designer  who used science and math to create beautiful works of art in the form of clothing. Seventy-pieces of his collection are displayed at this exhibit that runs until August 14th.

The museum provides  interesting ways to explain James’ innovative method of creating his designs.

 

 

 

For further information on this exhibit go to http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/charles-james-beyond-fashion.