"It's a huge moment for the Costume Institute," Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute's curator-at-large, told . "It will be transformative for our department, but I also think it's going to be transformative to fashion more generally-the fact that an art museum like the Met is actually giving a central location to fashion."
"What connects every curatorial department and what connects every single gallery in the museum is fashion, or the dressed body," Bolton told Vogue. "It's the common thread throughout the whole museum, which is really what the initial idea for the exhibition was, this epiphany: I know that we've often been seen as the stepchild, but, in fact, the dressed body is front and centre in every gallery you come across."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will open the Condé M. Nast Galleries, a nearly 12,000-square-foot space adjacent to the Grand Hall, next spring. The new space will become the dedicated home for the annual Costume Institute exhibition. The inaugural show, scheduled for 10 May 2026–10 January 2027, will emphasize the centrality of the dressed body within the museum. The exhibition will pair paintings, sculptures and other art objects with historical and contemporary garments from the Costume Institute to create artistic and historical dialogues across departmental collections. The relocation follows the popularity of fashion exhibitions and the record attendance of 2018's Heavenly Bodies.
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