The Metropolitan Museum of Art chose Fashion Week to announce their upcoming exhibit, titled American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (brought to you by The Gap! No, not kidding.) The major exhibition, opening in early May, will focus on the American woman's wardrobe from 1890 to 1940.

The Museum says this is the first time they'll draw exclusively from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. They aim to explore "developing perceptions of the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition will reveal how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sexual emancipation."

According to the Guardian, the exhibition will be split in to six sections, and range from "the ball gown-wearing 'dollar princesses' of the 1890s" to Bohemians of the early 1900s, 1920s flappers, and the screen sirens of the later years. So if the future of fashion isn't your thing, stay away from Bryant Park this week and hold out for the Met in May.