Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion: The Met’s New Exhibition Explores Scent and Sensory Experience

The Costume Institute’s latest exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, takes a unique approach by incorporating scent into the display. Artist Sissel Tolaas has infused the exhibition with aromas from the garments themselves, prompting visitors to experience fashion in a multi-sensory way. The exhibition showcases a diverse collection from the Met’s own archives, highlighting themes of nature, rebirth, and renewal in fashion.

Introducing LVERS: Pharrell Williams’ First Fragrance for Louis Vuitton

LVERS, the first fragrance collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Pharrell Williams, is a unique and desirable scent that transcends gender and age. Inspired by the smell of sunlight, the fragrance features notes of galbanum, ginger, and other natural ingredients that create a fresh and elegant aroma. With a focus on the power of olfaction, Williams and master perfumer Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud worked closely to develop a scent that evokes memories and embodies Williams’ vision of a fragrance that smells like colors. LVERS is available in a 100ml eau de parfum for $480.

Unveiling the Invisible: Sissel Tolaas Explores Smell in Fashion at the Met

Sissel Tolaas, a renowned scientist and fashion enthusiast, has brought her groundbreaking work on the intersection of smell, time, and linguistics to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (Met) ‘Sleeping Beauties’ exhibition. Through interactive installations, she delves into the emotional power of scent, capturing molecules from historic garments to create an olfactory biography of their wearers. Tolaas’s unique approach challenges traditional notions of fashion, pushing the boundaries of our sensory experience.

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