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"    Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art   Fashion designers have long taken inspiration from famous art\u2014from Yves Saint Laurent&amp;#039;s iconic Mondrian shift to Alexander McQueen&amp;#039;s grotesque Hieronymus Bosch prints and Rodarte&amp;#039;s ethereal Van Gogh flower dresses. But it turns out that many great artists owe their influences to la mode, as well. A new exhibition, &amp;quot;Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,&amp;quot; which opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC tomorrow, explores the role that style has played on the works of \u00C9douard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and their contemporaries from the mid 1860s to the mid 1880s, when Paris emerged as the fashion capital of the world. &amp;quot;The Impressionists were keen to capture the pulse and flux of contemporary life in all its brilliant nuances,&amp;quot; Met curator Susan Stein told ELLE.com. &amp;quot;And they gravitated toward fashion to invigorate threadbare conventions with modern sentiment.&amp;quot;      Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art   The exhibition includes some 80 paintings\u2014Monet&amp;#039;s ladies in white strolling through an exquisitely manicured garden; James Tissot&amp;#039;s haute heiresses looking languid and bored in all their ruffles and bows; and Renoir&amp;#039;s hazy, feverish portrayals of elegant theatergoers and nightclub revelers in corseted dresses and pearls. There are also period costumes, accessories, photographs, and popular prints illustrating fashion and art&amp;#039;s vital relationship during this period. It was a time that saw the rise of the bourgeoisie, ready-to-wear clothing, and department stores in Paris. These artists not only saw in the stylish Parisienne a gorgeous figure in fine frippery, but a symbol of the new order. Said Stein, &amp;quot;They embraced la mode as the harbinger of la modernit\u00E9.&amp;quot;   &amp;quot;Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity&amp;quot; runs through May 27 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. See a sneak peek at some of the paintings here, first.    Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art        Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art     Click here for live updates on the latest breaking fashion news. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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