Look ! 40 ans de mode au musée

The Musée des Arts décoratifs celebrates the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Musée des Arts de la Mode within its walls through 40 iconic silhouettes.

The major exhibition "Look! 40 ans de mode au musée" reveals the expertise and gestures of fashion that transform clothing into a work of art, from couture workshops to the museum's backstage.

The exhibition invites visitors to follow the two lives of a garment, before and after its entry into the collections.

From initial sketches to fashion shows, via fashion photography, and from the museum's reserves to the exhibition, it unveils the stages of creation, conservation, and restoration that bring this exceptional heritage to life.

The public can thus discover the beauty of the works and objects that contribute to the invention of a fashion piece: drawings, embroidery samples, patterns, model deposits...

Sublimated by photography, worn by increasingly famous models, clothing becomes the star of fashion shows now conceived as true artistic performances.

Presentation An immersion behind the scenes of the museum reveals the places and expertise of true artisans of fashion's memory who work to document, store in reserves, restore, and mannequin a heritage destined to be passed on to future generations.

Enriched by the extraordinary collections of the Union française des Arts du Costume (Ufac), and by donations from numerous designers, these collections are presented to the contemporary public through major exhibitions.

Forty iconic silhouettes, magnified in the museum's nave, offer a journey through four decades of exhibitions that have contributed to the sacralisation of fashion.

From "Moments de mode" to "Christian Dior, couturier du rêve" or "Les Mondes surréalistes d’Elsa Schiaparelli", from "Jouer la lumière" to "La Mécanique des dessous", they illustrate the diversity of the museum's approaches, celebrating masterpieces of haute couture as well as emerging creation, while questioning the social and cultural role of clothing.

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