Christian Lacroix, fashion stories Until April 20, 2008 at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile

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 €

The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929) at the Galliéra museum until February 28th, 2008

The fashion style of the "roaring twenties" reflects a decade hungry for movement, speed and frenzy. The 170 models, 200 accessories and 50 perfumes and cosmetics mainly from the Galliera funds and presented in this exhibition are a token of this period.

Between 1919 and 1929, the spirit of the time is to empower women and their bodies. The smart (Elegante, Parisian chic) woman of the 20's knows the ecstasy of driving a car, the freedom to cut their hair, make-up, smoking in public, appearing in "tomboy" and having a modern lifestyle.

The scenarized scenes designed for the exhibition are an invitation to share twenty-four hours in the life of this "Parisian chic."

During the day, sobriety is a must: simplicity of the cut is associated with cosy materials, embroidery made way for discrete ribbons, binding and lace. The modern woman is experiencing the flexibility and ease of clothing designed from the male athlete cloakroom or sportswear - sweater, knitwear, pajamas ...
In the evening, the purity of the lines of the clothes combined with the preciousness of decorative effects reveals, with dazzling lighting effects, the lamés, metal fringed lace, satins and beaded muslin, semi-precious stones, feathers and strass.

The Callot sisters, Chanel, Heim, Jenny, Patou, Poiret, Talbot, Worth are among the big names present in the exhibition, along with Lanvin, with the evocation of the Pavillon de l'Elegance (International Exhibition of Decorative Arts 1925 in Paris).
The journey ends on the major streams which have gone through the fashion of 1920's: modernity with Vionnet, Lelong, Art Deco with Dunand, painting with Delaunay, Gontcharova… and influences which, from Japan to Russia, through Africa, inspired prints and embroideries typical of those crazy years.

Illustration sounds, photographs and newsreels are evocations in the context of the time.

Commissioner
Sophie Grossiord, Chief Curator at the museum Galliera
Scenography
Antoine Fontaine and Marc Jeanclos

The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929)
until February 28th, 2008
Musée Galliera
www.galliera.paris.fr
10, avenue Pierre 1 of Serbia
75116 Paris
Tel.: 01 56 52 86 00 / fax: 01 47 23 38 37

Metro: Iéna or Alma Marceau
Open from 10 am to 18 pm
Every day except Monday (14 am to 18 pm on holidays)

Entrance fee
Full fare: 7 € / reduced price: 5, 50 €
young's fare(14-26 years): 3, 50 €
Free: less than 14 years