LOUVRE COUTURE , ART AND FASHION: STATEMENT PIECES, LOUVRE MUSEUM, PARIS
LOUVRE COUTURE
Art and Fashion: Statement Pieces
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LOUVRE MUSEUM
24 January-21 July
Curator; Olivier Gabet,Louvre Museum
Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas
NKA ART REPORTS SWITZERLAND-FRANCE-ISTANBUL
9 FEBRUARY, PARIS
Giambattista Valli, 1966 (Rome, Italy) The Collection Haute Couture, Fall/Winter 2018-2019
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Until 21 July, The Louvre Museum is presenting "Louvre Couture, Art and Fashion: Statement Pieces", the first major exhibition to place masterpieces of modern fashion and their inspiration in the wider context of French history and the decorative arts.
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The tapestries, armour, jewels, bronzes, cabinets, porcelain and other ornaments that embody the glory of French craftsmanship will be joined by looks from 45 Fashion houses and designers, including Balenciaga by both Cristobal and Demna, Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Dior by John Galliano and Maria Grazia Chiuri, Schiaparelli by Daniel Roseberry, Nicolas Ghesquière for Louis Vuitton and pieces from final collections by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and by Gianni Versace as well as leading indies such as Marine Serre, Erdem, Undercover, Thom Browne and Iris van Herpen.
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In his interview by Tina Isaac-Goize on January 2025 issue of the Vouge Magazine, the curator of the exhibition, Olivier Gabet, he is the new director of the decorative arts department of Louvre Museum, spoke about the making of the exhibition and what the world’s most famous museum brings to fashion—and vice versa.
Jacquemus, Simon Porte Jaquemus, 1990(Salon-de- Provance,France) The Collection prêt-à-porter,Fall/Winter 2023-2024
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"When I arrived, in 2022, Laurence des Cars (Louvre president-director) and I spoke a lot about all the programming we do around contemporary creation. We have choreographers, theater people, writers, painters, residencies, and I said we can’t have all these creatives and not make fashion a part of it. Fashion has to be here: it’s a major means of artistic expression today. It also makes sense because we have longstanding ties with fashion, whether through shows staged here by houses like Louis Vuitton and Dior or acquisitions and renovations that have been supported by the private sector, notably LVMH and Kering.That said, the Louvre exists a bit above the fray."*1
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, Lee Alexander Mcqueen, 1969-2010 (Great Britain),The Collection "Plato's Atlantis" Pret-à-Porter, Spring/Summer 2010.
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"We don’t need more visitors: we have almost 9 million a year. But fashion can change how people look at us. Even if we are talking about haute couture and extravagant prices, fashion is part of today’s popular culture, of visual culture. Lots of people feel in phase with fashion, and this is a way of inviting them in and letting them discover that they’re in phase with the museum, too."*1
*1-(Fashion curator Olivier Gabet interviewed by Tina Isaac-Goize in the January 2025 issue of the Vouge magazine.)
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Over an area of almost 9,000 square metres, 65 designs and a range of accessories will be on show, highlighting the close historical dialogue that continues between the world of fashion and the great masterpieces of the department, from Byzantium to the Second Empire.
THOM BROWNE, Thom Browne, 1965, (USA),The Collection Prêt-à-Porter, Spring/Summer 2020
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The big surprise of the exhibition is FREEDOM : most people's perception of the museum is the phenomenon of institutional rigidity. With this exhibition, the Louvre has broken the rules and allowed the public to discover the institution in a popular, contemporray and very surprising way.
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There's no classic itinerary in this exhibition, just an invitation to wander. Visitors sail from one era to the next as inspiration takes them.
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Visitors head to Byzantium and the Middle Ages, where the most precious works - gold, ivory and precious stones - are reflected in sublime silhouettes, proudly perched on mirrored catwalks that give the museum's galleries a catwalk feel. In the Renaissance rooms, majestic tapestries, glazed ceramics and finely crafted suits of armour also act as accomplices to the designer pieces.
(It was actually my very favorite.)
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The exhibition explores this richness with passion. The Louvre doesn't keep clothes - apart from a few historic pieces such as the cloaks of the Order of the Holy Spirit - but its galleries are overflowing with textile inspiration. Designers make no mistake: for them, the museum is a veritable open-air workshop where every detail can become a source of inspiration.
Collection "Inferno", Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2023
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The magic of this exhibition also lies in the scenography entrusted to Nathalie Crinière, a virtuoso of detail. Having already enhanced the Galerie Dior and the exhibitions for Elsa Schiaparelli and Iris van Herpen, here she sublimates the interaction between fashion and art with an immersive staging in which each piece finds its own light.
BOTTEGA VENETA ,Matthieu Blazy,1984, Paris France, Collection Prêt-à-Porter Fall/Winter 2023-2024
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Exhibition hosts visitors until 21 July.
Nazli Kok Akbas Art Reports, Paris, 9 February.
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