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At the Met, Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up in the Chemistry Lab

The immersive show features fragile dresses inside airtight vitrines, overcoats growing grass, pat-'n-sniff walls and a hologram. Does it work? - www.nytimes.com

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute announced its 2024 spring blockbuster show would be called "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," a lot of head-scratching ensued. Was this a show about Disney costumes? Princess frocks? Now the exhibition is actually here, and the answer is: none of the above. It's a show built on a base of 15 pieces from the.

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