The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute is making a bold claim with its next blockbuster exhibition: that fashion isn’t just adjacent to art history, it’s stitched straight through it.

Announced today at the museum, " Costume Art ," the institute's 2026 spring exhibition, will examine the “dressed body” as a constant across more than 5,000 years of global art, pairing roughly 200 objects from the museum’s encyclopedic collection alongside historical and contemporary garments.

“Thinking about this exhibition, it is about objects from across the museum being juxtaposed with garments from the Costume Institute,” said Max Hollein, the museum’s director and CEO, during an official press conference. “The exhibition presents fashion as an important an important and impactful go

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