An exceptional public release of an institutional costume archive, presenting nearly 15,000 garments, accessories and shoes from opera and dance productions. Institutional costume artisans’ handcrafted pieces range from Renaissance silhouettes to 2000s stagewear, juxtaposing historical tailoring with imaginative theatrical creations. The presentation highlights material workmanship—tailoring, embroidery, textile layering—and reveals how costume constructs character, period and spectacle. The sale evokes questions about preservation, reuse and the afterlife of performance objects while offering close encounters with living fragments of stage history.