Advance Details of Costume Institute's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" Exhibition

(From left) Donatella Versace, Anna Wintour, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, Christine Schwarzman, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Carrie Rebora Barratt, and Andrew Bolton at The Met's Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination advance press event. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art/@spgitalia

Tiara of Pius IX on display at The Met's Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination advance press event.
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Mitre of Pius XI on display at The Met's Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination advance press event.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a press presentation on Monday, February 26, at Galleria Colonna in Rome, Italy, to reveal early details about The Costume Institute's upcoming exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, opening on May 10. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone; and Anna Wintour joined The Met's Deputy Director Carrie Rebora Barratt and Costume Institute Curator in Charge Andrew Bolton for a glimpse of some of the objects on loan from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Sacristy to be featured in the exhibition, on view May 10–October 8, 2018, at The Met in New York City.

The exhibition is made possible by Christine and Stephen A. Schwarzman, and Versace.