Met's Costume Institute to Explore American Style

After fashionable forays into the worlds of superheroes and supermodels, the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute will return to mere mortals with a spring exhibition entitled “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity” [and cue an old-timey syncopated version of The Guess Who track]. The opening of the Gap-sponsored show will be feted on May 3 with the annual Costume Institute benefit gala, this year co-chaired by Oprah Winfrey, Gap designer Patrick Robinson, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.