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NEW YORK — One of the first sights we see in “Costume Art,” the new fashion exhibit to be launched at the Met Gala, is a glittering column gown by Dolce & Gabbana, its shimmering gold sequins surrounding an image of Aphrodite. The Greek goddess stands on a pedestal, holding a golden apple bestowed on her for her beauty — a classic ideal of beauty as old as, well, ancient Greece. But the idea of “Costume Art,” which examines the dressed body through centuries of art history, is not to celebrate the classical form. It is rather, says Andrew Bolton, longtime curator […]... Keep on reading: New Met Gala fashion exhibit seeks to ‘reclaim’ body types that art history ignored
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