Church dress exhibition is the most visited in the history of the Met Costume Institute of New York

Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the exhibition that, from May 10 to Oct. 8, 2018, investigates and analyzes the clothing of the Catholic Church and the ways in which it influenced everyone’s attire and designers’ choices, is already the most-visited exhibition in the history of the Costume Institute of New York, the world’s leading fashion museum collection, part of the Metropolitan Museum.

According to data released Aug. 23, the exhibition has crossed the one million visitor mark. If the exhibitions of the Metropolitan Museum as a whole are also included, “Heavenly Bodies” is the third most popular at the New York museum facility: in second place is 1963’s Mona Lisa, in which Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting was on display, while 1978’s Treasures of Tutankhamun, dedicated to Egyptian art, is the most visited ever with 1,360,957 people.

Further confirmation of Heavenly Bodies ’ success is the visit of a special guest Roger Federer. Accompanied by Anna Wintour, the famous director of Vogue after whom the Costume Institute was named in 2014 (as well as Federer’s friend), the famous tennis player visited the exhibition during one of his breaks from the first rounds of the US Open, which is underway in New York.

Returning to the exhibition, Heavenly Bodies occupies an area of more than 5,500 square meters in two exhibition spaces, collecting a total of 40 robes and liturgical vestments loaned from the Vatican sacristy, and 150 dresses, with all the accessories, created by leading fashion houses and inspired by the sumptuous ecclesiastical robes. It was an exhibition that required a great deal of work: installation work began in 2016.

Church dress exhibition is the most visited in the history of the Met Costume Institute of New York

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