This morning, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall — in front of a crowd that included Thom Browne , Vera Wang, Michael Kors, Derek Blasberg, and, naturally, Anna Wintour — Max Hollein, the director and chief executive of the Met, and Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Met’s Anna Wintour Costume Center, announced the theme for next year’s Costume Institute exhibition: “Costume Art.” The exhibition will explore what Bolton later called the “dress body,” a study of how garments are inherently art owing to their “relation to the body.”

The exhibition will pair 200 pieces of art with roughly 200 garments and accessories in a similar fashion, hoping to bridge the gap between fashion and fine art. A few samples of what this collection will entail were on display in

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