Oprah Winfrey is on board to host the annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute of Art next spring, support an exhibition that focuses on the style of American women.
"American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" is drawn archetypes of clothing and femininity from 1890 to 1940, and then examine how they affect how women are perceived today.
"The ideal American woman evolved from a dependence on European ideas Old World elegance in a sensitivity independent of the New World reflects that freedom is still associated with American women today," said curator Andrew Bolton a statement.
"The program will examine the role of fashion in the definition of how American women have historically represented, and how women’s fashion dresses archetypes that persist in varying degrees of relevance."
Show items that come from the new collection of Brooklyn Museum of Costume at the Met, and there will be several multimedia elements in the exhibition. Featured designers include Charles Frederick Worth, Charles James, Valentina and Madeleine Vionnet.
On May 3 gala is the main event fundraising Fashion Institute, to be co-chaired by Patrick Robinson, Gap’s creative director, and as has become tradition, editor in chief of Vogue Anna Wintour. Kate Moss and Justin Timberlake, host of the event last year, when the exhibition was about supermodels.
