MUMBAI (IANS)– Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali has highlighted the deep cultural and artistic value of traditional textiles in his 1981 classic “Umrao Jaan.” Known for its timeless elegance, the film stands ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s unveiling of “Costume Art” drops the velvet ropes that once corralled the exclusive worlds of fashion and art, giving visitors an all-access pass to all types of ...

“I am afraid to own a Body— / I am afraid to own a Soul— / Profound—precarious Property— / Possession, not optional—” There it is, captured in four lines by Emily Dickinson, the human condition. This ...

Last night, the elite from Hollywood and beyond took to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala, the red carpet of which rivals that of the Oscars for the fashion world.

“Not a lot of people know that the museum is actually composed of 21 distinct buildings, many of them by different architects, that were accumulated over time in both a planned and unplanned way,” ...

Dan Gentile is the senior culture editor at SFGATE, where he has covered music, movies and San Francisco subcultures since 2019. Previously he was the founding editor of Thrillist Austin and worked as ...

This time it’s personal . . . . It’s next to impossible to walk through “Costume Art,” the Met’s blockbuster fashion exhibition, as an impassive observer. Active looking is more than encouraged, it’s ...

From beyond the museum walls Monday, works of art will move and take shape as the glitterati of guests from Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman to Venus Williams will fashionably ascend the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Long before 1946, when fashion was officially acknowledged as curatorial department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a provocative question hovered over the profound daily act of getting dressed: Is ...

Alexa Herrera is a digital producer with the CBS News New York web team. She previously worked with WUFT and WTSP in Florida as a digital producer. She's a Long Island native. "Costume Art will ...

“Costume Art,” the spring exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, has not arrived without its fair share of controversy. The accompanying Costume Institute Benefit, known ...