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Clips from The First Monday in May

"(indistinct shouting from photographers)"
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"(indistinct shouting)"
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"Photographer: Hold that right there, please."
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"(indistinct shouting continues)"
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"Anna Wintour: The Met stairs, you know,"
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"that famous red carpet,"
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"has grown in spectacle over the years."
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"It's a kind of theater."
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"(man speaks indistinctly)"
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"Fashion can create a dream, create a fantasy."
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"But there might be some questions about"
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"whether fashion belongs in a museum like the Met."
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"Photographer 2: Rihanna!"
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"(indistinct shouting continues)"
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"(elevator dings)"
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"Some people have a very 19th century idea of what art is."
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"There are people within the museum"
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"who still dismiss fashion."
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"Thomas Campbell: When I started off as a curator,"
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"art was considered to be"
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"painting, architecture and sculpture."
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"Anything outside of that was decorative arts and,"
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"quite frankly, looked down on."
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"Costume and fashion being one example of that."
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"Wintour: The museum is its own little world,"
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"its own little city."
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"Some more old-fashioned traditionalists"
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"are used to things being done in a certain way and"
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"maybe a Costume Institute"
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"makes them a bit uncomfortable."
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"Harold Koda: Physically, the Costume Institute is"
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"subterranean."
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"And so the psychology of it has always been that"
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"we were in the north sector..."
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"in a basement."
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"It was not seen, really, as an art area."
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"(indistinct conversation)"
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"Andrew Bolton: Fashion is still considered"
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"more in the female domain than something like painting."
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"I think that's the reason why some people"
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"are quick to dismiss fashion as art."
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"Koda: Fashion seemed frivolous and trivial"
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"to the 19th century attitudes about fine art."
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"But it's laden with concepts,"
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"aesthetic principals,"
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"the most refined techniques..."
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"Everything that we subject the criteria of art to."
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"We're about clothing as art works."
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"Wintour: It's rare to find someone so creative,"
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"that they can change the way you look at an art form."
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"But McQueen definitely did."
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"Newsreader: Our top story:"
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"Alexander McQueen has been found dead"
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"apparently committing suicide at his London flat."
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"Newsreader 2: Brilliant and controversial"
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"fashion designer..."
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"Newsreader 3: The bad boy of British fashion died an icon."
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"An inspirational designer"
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"who helped transform the fashion industry."
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"Newsreader 4: They were shutting down his shops today,"
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"and there were people fleeing his shops crying."
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"(bagpipes playing)"
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"(cameras clicking)"
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"Campbell: It was the immediate aftermath"
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"of McQueen's suicide..."
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"Andrew came to me and said that"
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"he had been thinking about an exhibition."
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"Tom was reluctant initially."
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"He felt it was a bit ghoulish."
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"There needed to be some time"
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"before we did an exhibition of McQueen."
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"Wintour: A lot of people felt that"
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"an exhibition may not be appropriate so soon after he,"
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"he died in such an awful way,"
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"but Andrew is a real visionary,"
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"and our job is to help him execute his creative genius."
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"Campbell: The combination of the objects,"
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"the very theatrical mise-en-scène,"
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"the sound..."
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"(sound of rushing air)"
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"There was an immersive component to the exhibition"
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"that took it to a new level."
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"The degree to which the show became a phenomenon..."
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"None of us were prepared for that."
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"People queuing around the museum."
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"It hasn't happened for many years."
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"Wintour: It touched a chord in people"
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"that I'd never seen before."
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"Campbell: It redefined exhibition-making in museums."
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"Bolton: "Savage Beauty" was the turning point"
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"in terms of how art critics began to view fashion,"
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"and the first time they did begin to see it as an art form."
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"When you're confronted by genius,"
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"it speaks to everybody."
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"McQueen was one of the most provocative designers,"
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"but I always saw this incredible beauty"
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"about his work and this deep romance."
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"He always tried to tap into this juncture between"
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"beauty and ugliness and terror."
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"And he had that ability to use clothes to move you."
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"The McQueen show has become a little bit"
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"of an albatross in a way..."
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"A millstone around my neck. Because it's the show"
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"that every show that I've done subsequently"
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"is measured against."
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"Invariably the reviews in The New York Times..."
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""Not as good as the McQueen show.""
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"And it's sort of..."
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"disappointing to read that in print"
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"because every show has its own momentum."
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"I remember being at school, and we had a career adviser."
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"They went around the class saying,"
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"you know, "What's your ideal job?""
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"And I said my ideal job would be"
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"curator in the Costume Institute of the Met."
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"And I was about 17."
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"It really was a dream come true."
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"I was just so seduced by the romance"
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"of getting lost in the museum and"
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"finding objects that you weren't expecting."
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