The Met, Fashion and Blogging. My dream come true!

There's a new exhibit, just one day old, at the Metropolotain Museum of Art in NYC.

The Met is displaying 40 new acquisitions from its Costume Institute in blog.mode: addressing fashion. That's fantastic, but more importantly, we, the fashion loving public can comment on the pieces through their website.

This is the info from the museum itself: (why are boats and countries female? like i took her for a sail, or mother russia? mother russia's a bad example maybe, but really why?)(Speaking of, Valdimir Putin is Time magazine's Person of the Year...BORING!)

As a living art form, fashion is open to multiple readings. A vibrant reflection of contemporary culture, fashion "especially in its most avant-garde expressions”affects us through its intense visual impact. blog.mode: addressing
fashion is the first in a series of shows designed to promote critical and creative dialogues about fashion. The exhibition presents some forty costumes and accessories dating from the eighteenth century to the present "all recent Metropolitan Museum acquisitions”and invites visitors to share their reactions online or from a "blogbar" of computer terminals in the exhibition galleries. The exhibition is made possible by Manolo Blahnik.

YIPEE! Really don't take advantage of the museums here enough!