On Saturday my friend Molly, who is in town for the weekend from Orlando, and I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Alexander McQueen exhibit, Savage Beauty.
The museum doesn’t open until 9:30, but they’ve been having record attendance and long waits to get into the exhibit itself and it was 100 degrees out and a Saturday, so we decided to meet at 8:45.
This meant getting up at 7 so I could be out the door at 7:45, but it was completely worth it. As it turns out, Random House has a corporate membership to the Met, so Molly and I were able to get free admission - which was amazing! And we were far enough up the queue that we only had to wait about 10 minutes to get into Savage Beauty.
The exhibit was MUCH bigger than I expected and pretty spectacular. There was absolutely no photography allowed (since the pieces were all on loan from private collections), but some of the work can be seen on the Met’s website. We had a great time looking at all the intricate detailing making plans for our own knock-off fascinators. Afterwards we hit up the gift shop and only the extreme weight of the exhibit companion coffee table book kept me from dropping $45 on it right then and there.
All in all, very highly recommended! And it closes in two weeks, so I was super excited to be able to go (and not have to go alone) before it no longer exists.
