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Pentagram has designed the catalogue for , the blockbuster exhibition currently on view at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Organized by Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute, the show explores the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion, and how China has inspired artists and designers for centuries.聽

China: Through the Looking Glass聽is one of the largest exhibitions ever mounted by the Metropolitan Museum and features more than 100 examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear by designers including Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood. These are juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other artworks, including films, which are highlighted for their importance in influencing fashion. (The celebrated filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai served as the exhibition's artistic director.)

The designers' book design vividly illustrates the creative dialogue between East and West, past and present. Like the exhibition, the catalogue makes connections between objects and fashions across different periods and mediums. Works are paired in spreads and intermixed with other art forms鈥攑aintings, drawings, movie stills鈥攖hat appear on translucent vellum pages, creating a cross-disciplinary flow that echoes the thematic arrangements of the galleries. Many exhibition objects were newly photographed for the catalogue by the renowned photographer .

The catalogue is available in two editions, both lavishly produced. The features a Chinese-string binding and is housed in an elegant black box embossed with a traditional image of a dragon. Strictly limited to 500 copies, it also includes a framable print of a Platon photograph. The is printed on Chinese-fold pages and features a textural gold-stamped silk cover with a pattern adapted from a 19th鈥揷entury festival robe in the museum鈥檚 collection. The book's title appears on a bellyband that wraps the volume.

Pentagram previously designed catalogues for three of the Costume Institute鈥檚 big spring shows, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy (2008), Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations (2012), and PUNK: Chaos to Couture (2013).