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Schiaparelli To Support Man Ray Exhibition At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Luxferity, 25.07.2025
Maison Schiaparelli supports Man Ray: When Objects Dream, a landmark exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, running from September 14, 2025, through February 1, 2026.
This exhibition will be the first to focus on Man Ray’s iconic “rayographs” and the experimental spirit that defined his cross-media practice during the early 20th century. With more than 150 works—spanning photography, painting, objects, and film—the exhibition captures the boundarybreaking energy of Man Ray’s art and his essential role in the Dada and Surrealist movements.
Multicolor Sequin Long Dress
Schiaparelli supports this exhibition in honor of the friendship and fruitful collaboration between the Maison’s legendary founder Elsa Schiaparelli and Man Ray. As part of a living, breathing artistic community, Schiaparelli and Man Ray first met in New York in 1919, through their mutual friend Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, a key figure in the Dada and avant-garde circles. In Paris, their friendship evolved into a profound collaboration. Their shared vision of art as a site of play, illusion, and transformation found fertile ground in fashion. In Schiaparelli, Man Ray found a subject who blurred the line between model and muse; in Man Ray, Schiaparelli found a visual partner who could translate her designs into dreams.
From the Maison’s earliest designs to its present-day collections, Schiaparelli has drawn inspiration from the world of art—bold, subversive, dreamlike. Supporting this exhibition affirms the Maison’s enduring commitment to creativity and cultural dialogue.
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“I’ve always had a special feeling for Man Ray—like me, he was an American (born in Pennsylvania in 1890), and a Virgo. He was also, more significantly, an outsider in Paris, a voyeur of a scene who later became synonymous with it.
And like Elsa Schiaparelli, he blurred the lines between fashion and art: Before fashion became a commercial enterprise, it was an artistic one, and that’s in no small part thanks to them, and how easily they moved between genres and creative identities.” - Daniel Roseberry
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Man Ray: When Objects Dream invites visitors to rediscover a moment in history when objects, ideas, and people defied expectations and transformed the fabric of modern culture.
