If all the world’s a stage, then it follows that one must dress for it. As Shakespeare’s character Jaques explains in As You Like It, we play many roles in life and make many entrances and exits. The Peabody Essex Museum’s stunning exhibition Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World has me thinking about life’s theatricality and the way we dress ourselves for our most public and consequential performances.

Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World makes its North American debut at PEM now through February 16, 2026.