"Heavenly Bodies"

This is the exhibit we went to the Met to see:  “Heavenly Bodies,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s colossal, hotly debated and richly anointed exhibition on the interweaving of fashion and Roman Catholicism.  It includes vestments from the Vatican. some of which have never before left Rome, and more than 150 examples of secular clothing from the last century.  Photographs are not allowed of the Vatican garments.  The secular clothing is clearly based on examples of religious clothing.  Some of it is quite beautiful, as these dresses show.  Some of the other pieces are, at the least, very strange.  And of course, my question is: "What kind of events do you wear this clothing to?"  If you want to know more, here is a link to the New York Times review of the show: nytimes.com/heavenly-bodies-met-costumes

This wedding dress is my favorite !