Embodying Heaven: Curating the Space Between Fashion and Faith

The Religious Studies Program at Eugene Lang College and the Fashion Studies program at Parsons, School of Art, Design, History & Theory, invite you to join Jessica Glasscock, Research Associate at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute in conversation with Fiona Dieffenbacher, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Parsons and Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Eugene Lang.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s history-making exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” (closing October 8th) explores how the Catholic imagination has shaped the creativity of designers and how it is conveyed through their narrative impulses. These impulses are reflected in the organization of the exhibition, which unfolds as a series of short stories told through conversations between religious artworks in The Met collection, both at the Met Fifth Avenue and the Met Cloisters, and fashions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Presented by the Religious Studies Program at Eugene Lang College and the Fashion Studies program at Parsons, School of Art, Design, History & Theory.

Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnhold Hall

55 West 13th Street, Room I-205, New York, NY 10011