For over a year, Christian Lacroix has been immersed in the collections of costumes and accessories from the museum. The result is an atypical exhibition in which the designer delivers his vison of fashion, subjective and creative ... The Musée de la Mode et du Textile prompt fashion designer Christian Lacroix to become the curator and fashion historian he never was, when as student of art history at the Ecole du Louvre he decided to commit himself in a creative work now globally recognized and appreciated. For over a year, Christian Lacroix has been immersed in the collections of costumes and accessories from the museum. The result is an atypical exhibition in which the designer delivers his vison of fashion, subjective and creative... The models he selected from a century rich heritage will meet for a few months haute-couture creations of one of the greatest names in French fashion.
The exhibition is a unique adventure, a story of fashion from the eighteenth century to the present day freely and subjectively told by Christian Lacroix himself.
More than 400 clothes, carefully chosen according to themes or techniques the fashion designer loves and that have marked the history of fashion, are set against his own creations, creating a game of echoes and crossing between the present and the past.
Christian Lacroix, fashion stories
Until April 20, 2008
Musée de la Mode et du Textile
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/
109-111, Rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris Plan d'accès
Tel : 01 44 55 57 50
Hours and dates :
from 08/11/07 to 06/04/08 from 10am to 06pm : Sunday, Saturday
from 08/11/07 to 06/04/08 from 11am to 06pm : Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
from 08/11/07 to 06/04/08 from 11am to 09pm : Thursday
Entrance fee:
Full rate: 8.00 €
Reduced rate : 6.50 €
