The Met’s revelatory new exhibition employs sight, touch, smell, sound, and technology to bring rarely seen pieces to life. Nathan Heller gets the full picture.
“It’s something we always struggle with—that, once a garment comes into the museum, a lot of the sensorial experiences that we take for granted with clothing are lost,” Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge at the Costume Institute, explains this morning, over tea, in a dimly lit conference room inside The Met. Photographs of more than 50 clothing items are pinned to the wall. “The positive part of it is that we’re custodians of the clothing, here to take care of it in perpetuity,” he goes on.
Another of The Met’s new acquisitions, it is recently back from the anechoic chamber at Binghamton University in New York, where Bolton recorded the clatter of the flowers against one another. The same process was used to capture the scroop associated with a historical dress, and both audio samples will be included in this exhibition. Yet the real reason for including the Marni dress, Bolton explains, is not its sound but its association with scent.
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