Featuring some eighty major figure paintings, this exhibition presents a revealing look at the role of fashion in the works of the Impressionists and their contemporaries.

On view February 26–May 27, 2013

The Costume Institute's spring 2020 exhibition traces more than a century and a half of fashion, from 1870 to the present.

This exhibition features promised gifts from Sandy Schreier, a pioneering collector, who over the course of more than half a century assembled one of the finest private fashion collections in the United States.

On view November 27, 2019–September 27, 2020

The Costume Institute's fall 2016 exhibition features significant acquisitions of the past 10 years and explores how the department has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality.

On view November 18, 2016–February 5, 2017

The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition features a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.

On view May 10–October 8, 2018

This Costume Institute exhibition presents an extensive exploration of man's ongoing obsession with animalism as expressed through clothing.

The inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute examines the career of the legendary twentieth-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978). Charles James: Beyond Fashion explores James's design process, focusing on his use of sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continue to influence designers today. Approximately seventy-five of James's most notable designs are presented in two locations—the new Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery in the Anna Wintour Costume Center as well as exhibition galleries on the Museum's first floor.

On view May 8–August 10, 2014

Through more than 250 objects dating from the seventeenth century to the present, The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition explores the origins of camp's exuberant aesthetic.

On view May 9–September 8, 2019

This interdisciplinary exhibition, drawn largely from the Metropolitan Museum's own collection, combines printed pattern books, drawings, textile samples, costumes, paintings, and various other works of art to evoke the colorful world in which the Renaissance textile pattern books first emerged and functioned.

On view October 20, 2015–January 10, 2016