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A museum has playfully compared a selection of its exhibits to the eye-catching fashions at the Met Gala.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford singled out stunning outfits from Zendaya and Kim Kardashian among others.
It is the third year the museum has highlighted an array of surprising similarities between its collections and the celebrities’ haute couture.
A spokeswoman said it showed how its “rich collections” were “enormously relevant to design and art today”.
Image source, Getty Images/Ashmolean Museum
Image source, Getty Images/Ashmolean Museum
The Met Gala is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and draws A-list celebrities and the who’s who of the fashion world.
It raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and tickets are rumoured to cost upwards of $70,000 (£56,000).
Image source, Getty Images/Ashmolean Museum
Image source, Getty Images/Ashmolean Museum
The 2024 theme was The Garden of Time – a short story about a Count and Countess who pluck time-reversing flowers.
A spokeswoman for the Ashmolean said: “We love hunting through the collections each year to see what fascinating objects and artworks we can find.”
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She added: “Fashion is so often inspired by art, culture and history and the Ashmolean’s rich collections are enormously relevant to design and art today.
“By sharing this sort of playful social media post we hope to introduce the museum’s incredible collections to new audiences.”
Image source, Getty Images/Ashmolean Museum
Image source, Getty Images/Ashmolean Museum
The museum first opened in the 17th Century, and was Britain’s first public museum.
Its “Ashmolean meets the Met Gala” Instagram galleries, now seemingly an annual tradition, were previously posted in 2022 and 2023.
