Metropolitan Museum Of Art explores fashion's complex relationship with time


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The exhibition creates an ongoing dialogue between older fashion pieces that date back as far as the 1870s and more recent items from the 1960s and beyond. Photo: AP

Whether by repetition, rupture or reinvention, fashion has always maintained a complex relationship to time, a link New York's Metropolitan Museum Of Art (Met) is exploring in a new exhibition.

The show, delayed for months by the pandemic, was also tweaked last minute to take into account the Black Lives Matter movement that galvanised the nation this summer.

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