Fashion Forward: 3 centuries of Fashion

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of its fashion collection from April 7 to August 14, 2016.

by Team Paris Social Diary, photography by Luc Boegly | 10 May, 2016

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The famous Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates thirty years of its fashion collection from April 7th to  August 14th 2016.

This is the opportunity to meet very high expectations of the public: finally there is opportunity to embrace the history of fashion over several centuries. It is also an opportunity to draw on the strengths and to recall his features: a national collection of fashion and textiles preserved in the museum in dialogue with other departments of the museum.

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The exhibition “Fashion Forward, Three centuries of fashion” (1715-2016) brings together 300 pieces of women’s fashion, men’s and children’s eighteenth century to the present, from its funds, assembled together to draw an original timeline.

Also, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the opening, within it, the Musée des Arts de la Moda, established in 1986 at the initiative of Pierre Bergé and the French textile industry, and with the decisive support of Jack Lang, then Minister of Culture, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs had to make tribute to this collective adventure in this great “fashion moment”, handing these collections among the most important in the world, through an exhibition presented for the first time in the spaces of the Nave, liberated from the glass showcases of the fashion galleries.

 

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With nearly 300 rooms, the exhibition adopts the bias of a journey over time, in as many scansions that recall the key moments in the history of fashion, to the very end of the seventeenth century to the creation most contemporary.

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Because the whole history of fashion is also a history of the body and the look, the artistic director of the exhibition was entrusted to the dancer and British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, who was among the stars of the New York City Ballet before become the author noticed an American in Paris in 2014 by Vicente Minelli.

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Accompanied by set designer Jerome Kaplan, and assisted by Isabelle Vartan, Christopher Wheeldon has given to the collection and presented for the first time a sensual and poetic impression, reviving these badges works, making each step of the exhibition a world in itself and a substantial experience.