“Costume Artwork” is the primary of Bolton’s exhibitions to be subtitle-less. The simplicity of the present’s identify bolsters its goal: that vogue ought to most definitely be thought-about on the identical airplane as artwork. “I believed very, very rigorously about that,” Bolton says. In actual fact, as lately as two weeks in the past, the present did have a colon and a subtitle. “However then we took it out and it was like taking off a corset,” he laughs. “I believed, that is precisely what it ought to be. It’s daring, it’s robust, it’s a press release of intent.” The purpose, he goes on, “is to not create a brand new hierarchy. It’s simply to disband that hierarchy and to deal with equivalency—equivalency of artworks and equivalency of our bodies.”
Made potential by Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos, with different funding from Saint Laurent and Condé Nast, “Costume Artwork” will run from Could 10, 2026–January 10, 2027, following the Met Gala on Could 4, 2026, which supplies the Costume Institute with its major supply of funding for all actions.
