On a sunny Tuesday evening, the second day of couture week in Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Friends of The Costume Institute brought out fashion and arts biggest fans for a cocktail party.
Hosted by Andrew Bolton (Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute),Voguesown Mark Guiducci (and one of the co-chairs of the Friends of The Costume Institute), and Hassan Pierre (a member of the Friends group), it was the ultimate meeting place for conversations about fashion as art and vice versa.
Since the haute couture shows are all about craft and preserving rare techniques, it was a match made in heaven, and there was ample material for endless conversations.
Andrew Bolton, Hassan Pierre, Mark Guiducci
Inside Pierres home, friends, couture fans, and members of The Mets Friends group sipped cocktails and discussed everything from the current lineup of shows to what they were most excited to see while in Paris.
It was a fitting event for The Friends of The Costume Institute, which frequently hosts chic cocktails and fun gatherings.
The Friends of The Costume Institute is a group of patrons who provide support to the Museum and the Costume Institute, to get to help the department acquire its stunning and fascinating objects for the overall collection and future exhibitions.
The collection currently contains over 33,000 objects from the fifteenth century to the presentand often serves as the basis for the topical Costume Institute exhibitions.
With couture week as a backdrop, its impossible not to think about the pieces coming down the runway in the context of them becoming future museum pieceswith all that workmanship, its impossible not to.
Timed to the Met Gala earlier this spring, The Costume Institute opened its spring exhibition,Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, full of pieces taken from The Costume Institutes permanent collection.
As guests sipped cocktails under the Paris sun that never seems to set in the summer evenings, it proved theres never been a better time to think about the preservation of the art of fashion.
Thom Browne, Andrew Bolton, Hassan Pierre, Francois Sarkozy
Andrew Bolton, Allison Sarofim
Anh Doung, Thom Browne
Anastasia Sarkozy, Francois Sarkozy, Katinka Sarkozy
Karolina Kurkova
