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

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.