Catholic 'heavenly' fashion breaks NY Met record
4 monthes ago - By Fashion United
It was the ambitious New York exhibition that brought together haute couture and Vatican treasures, treading delicately so as to keep the Catholic Church on side, and it appears to have paid off.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday that 1.66 million visitors flocked to its 2018 Costume Institute show, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the
Catholic Imagination," making it the institution's most visited exhibition.
That number eclipsed the previous record holder, "Treasures of
Tutankhamun," seen by 1.36 million visitors in 1978, the museum said.
"Heavenly Bodies," which ran from May 10...
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