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This morning the Met announced that its fall Costume Institute show will showcase 30 outfits worn by women in mourning (including dresses worn by Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra) between 1815 and 1915. Scheduled to open in the Anna Wintour Costume Center on October 21 and run through February 1, the show is titled “Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire.” The exhibition is the first time the Met has planned a fashion show in the fall since 2007. We are dying to see the show, which will showcase many garments for the first time and “reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the sartorial dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved over a century,” according to the press release.

Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity, which will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on February 26, 2013, will present Impressionist masterpieces alongside garments and accessories from the time. The innovative survey will explore how artists responded to and interpreted fashion from the 1860s through the mid-1880s.

The exhibition, which features 79 paintings and 14 dresses, draws stylistic connections between the canvases and the garments. Highlights include Claude Monet’s (1840-1926) Luncheon on the Grass (1865-66), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1941-1919) Lise-The Woman with the Umbrella (1867), Édouard Manet’s (1832-1883) La Parisienne (circa 1875), Edgar Degas’ (1834-1917) The Millinery Shop (circa 1882-86), and Mary Cassatt’s (1844-1926) In the Loge (1878). Many of the works are on loan from museums such as the Paris’ Musée d’Orsay, the Art Institute of Chicago, London’s Courtauld Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition also includes period photographs and illustrations to reinforce the connection between fashion and art.

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity will be on view at the Met through May 27, 2013. The exhibition will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago in June 2013.