Virginia Woolf’s Ghost at the Met’s Costume Institute

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Andrew Bolton, the curator of the Met’s Costume Institute, who chose the British writer as the “ghost narrator” of the new exhibition “About Time: Fashion and Duration” (opening on Oct. 29). Literary excerpts accompany paired garments (including Viktor & Rolf’s haute-couture gown, from 2020, above) that are stylistically similar but were designed decades apart—a chic exploration of what Woolf once described as “the extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind.”