The Met in New York is set to have a crazy fabulous exhibit opening December 18 and I can’t wait to blog about it.  Yes, blog about it.  It’s called blog.mode: addressing fashion and it “will be the first in a series of shows designed to promote critical and creative dialogues about fashion.”  Yeah, whatever, so critics of the art world get to run their pens off babbling in eternity about The Sun King’s influence on Christopher Kane’s designs (ah, none).  But you have yet to read on: 

The exhibition will present some 40 costumes and accessories dating from the 18th century to the present—all recent Metropolitan Museum acquisitions—and will invite visitors to share their reactions via a blog that can be accessed from the “Special Exhibitions” page of the Museum’s website or from a “blogbar” of computer terminals in the exhibition galleries.

How friggin’ cool is that?   The average person can blog on the exhibition from home or directly from the computer terminal in front of the costume.  I can’t wait to see how many blogs they get.  Will the system be overloaded on the first day with so many visitors with opinions that they’ll have to shut it down for upgrades?  I mean, if you’re standing right there, how can you not just type in, “I love it,” or, “Gorgeous,” or, “Reminiscent of Coco Chanel’s appropriation of men’s sports clothes as the language of fashion, inasmuch as she made her own fashion of the sport jackets that were, of the time, everyday male attire.”

The only problem is that you have to visit the museum in order to blog on the exhibit.  And obviously we don’t all live in New York.  But given the blog descriptions of others, and the possible fame of some of the collection’s pieces, it may be possible to do some web searching and find enough information to have an opinion of your own.  And The Met does plan to post some individual costumes and accessories periodically on the website “with commentary from the Costume Institute curators and, where relevant, from contemporary designers” over the duration of the exhibit.  So we’re not completely left in the dark.

But what an amazing idea for an exhibit in this age of blogging like the wind.  Everyone is doing it, so why not let us have our say?

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