The new “Costume Art” exhibition pairs artworks with garments, some of them displayed on custom mannequins constructed through 3D printing The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts the Met Gala May 4 to celebrate the new “Costume Art” exhibition. Carlos Delgado via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Walking into the sea of mannequins that fill the Metropolitan Museum of Art ’s new “ Costume Art ” exhibition, you will see some tall, thin, willowy bodies typical of storefronts. But you’ll also see larger bodies, pregnant bodies, trans bodies and bodies with disabilities—all with mirrors for faces to reflect the experience back to the visitor. These diverse mannequin forms, a first for the museum, are meant to highlight the artistry and aesthetics of fashion on every body. “The whole show [is] structured around a typology of bodies, and these are bodies that you see across the museum when you encounter artworks,” Andrew Bolton , the Costume Institute’s curator in charge, tells Vogue ’s Laird Borrelli-Persson.…