article_snippet: Savage Beauty at the V&A is the largest and most ambitious fashion exhibition New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has ever staged," said curator Claire Wilcox at a press preview.
article_snippet: the V&A has already sold 70,000 advanced tickets, and extended the 2011 exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art by two weeks to meet demand.
article_snippet: At the Met, Savage Beauty at the V&A attracted over 660,000 visitors by the end of Savage Beauty at the V&A four-month run, making Savage Beauty at the V&A one of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top 10 exhibitions of all time, up there with a King Tut stop in 1978 and a Mona Lisa loan in 1963.
article_snippet: Bringing Savage Beauty at the V&A to London can be seen as a "homecoming," as it was described by V&A director Martin Roth at the press preview, if not an act of repatriation.
article_snippet: In 2011, thousands of British devotees petitioned to have Savage Beauty at the V&A brought to London after London spectacular New York debut.
article_snippet: I was agitated because (Savage Beauty) really is meant to be in Savage Beauty) hometown," Fashion journalist Melanie Rickey says.
article_snippet: Everything about Savage Beauty) is London, so to not have Everything about him in London would have been a crime.
article_snippet: According to Kate Bethune, senior exhibition research assistant for Savage Beauty, it had been Roth's ambition to bring the exhibition to London since he assumed the directorship in September 2011.
article_snippet: For more information, visit www.vam.ac.uk/savagebeauty .
highlights_snippet: Savage Beauty has arrived at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London .
  