While the Costume Institute unveils "The Model as Muse," Hamish Bowles follows Marc Jacobs as he discovers his own iconic girls of the season.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
"The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion," opening this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, explores 50 years of iconic fashions—from Christian Dior's blossoming New Look of 1947 to the reductive simplicity current in the late nineties—through the women whose faces, figures, and attitudes shaped and personified them. Curated by Harold Koda and Kohle Yohannan, the exhibition, designed by John Myhre (whose art-direction credits include the films Dreamgirls and Chicago), is sponsored by Marc Jacobs, who is as acutely sensitive as any designer working today to the potent impact of models and muses—be they historical, fictional, or completely real and of the moment.
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