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[email protected] Costume Institute Exhibition Presents a Contact Disrupted Timeline of Fashion History Nancy Chilton Mika Kiyono The Costume Institute’s exhibition About Time: Fashion and Duration (on view October 29, 2020 to February 7, 2021) traces 150 years of Exhibition Dates: fashion, from 1870 to the present, along a disrupted timeline, in honor of October 29, 2020–February 7, the Museum’s 150th anniversary. Employing philosopher Henri 2021 (rescheduled from May 7, Bergson’s concept of la durée—the continuity of time—the exhibition 2020) explores how clothes generate temporal associations that conflate the past, present, and future. The concept is also examined through the Member Previews: writings of Virginia Woolf, who serves as the exhibition’s “ghost October 26, 2020 narrator.” 11am–5pm October 29, 2020 The exhibition is made possible by Louis Vuitton. 9am–12pm Corporate sponsorship is also provided by Condé Nast. Exhibition Location: The Met Fifth Avenue – Additional support is provided by Michael Braun, John and Amy Griffin, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Nancy C. and Richard R. Rogers, the Natasha and Adar Poonawalla Exhibition Hall, Floor 2 Foundation, and the Laura and Raymond Johnson Fund. www.metmuseum.org/AboutTime #MetAboutTime “About Time: Fashion and Duration considers the ephemeral nature of @metcostumeinstitute fashion, employing flashbacks and fast-forwards to reveal how it can be both linear and cyclical,” said Max Hollein, Director of The Met. “The result is a show that presents a nuanced continuum of fashion over the Museum’s 150-year history.” Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, said: “Fashion is indelibly connected to time.