Inside the Met's Lavish New Exhibit, Jewelry: The Body Transformed

Sparkling, glittering, and above all, fascinating, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit Jewelry: The Body Transformed dives in to the history of how we adorn ourselves Are any reoccurring themes in the jewelry that you noticed throughout history? What you find again and again is that jewelry is always playing with the idea of preciousness I often talk about jewelry as kind of permanent trace of the impermanent body.

Jewelry and decoration seem to be mostly associated with women - what it was like to work with that subject with a team of all women?One message I'm very keen for people to understand is we now associate jewelry with women, but historically, culturally, that is hardly the case at all A lot of the jewelry in the show was specifically made for men Some of the jewelry I love most was made for men! So that's part of that very notion we're trying to pull apart.

Can you tell me about the jewelry that you are personally wearing today?We toyed not wearing any jewelry at all - like we should just be the blank slate and let the exhibition be the bejeweled thing. . Source