A 16th -century decorative watch is located with a metal body suit studded with Crystal by Tierry Mugley. A gold -plated silver sacred sanctuary is standing next to Hermes gloves. A ceramic hand warmer of Faenza, Italy, which looks like a book -like clutch and a book.
The prestigious museum in Paris, the first fashion exhibition “Louvre Couture” in the history of 231.
Finally, in the 1957 movie “Fanny Face”, Aute Couture caused such excitement at the Louvre Museum, Audrey Hepburn pose in front of a Samotorake Nike in a strap -less red Givenchy dress. It was when I ran down the dull stairs. The matching chiffon curf is lifted on my head.
45 fashion houses and designers have lent 100 ensembles and accessories from 1960 to 2025 to museums, from Christical Valenciaga to Iris Van Helpen. They are not in the famous paintings and marble sculptures of the Louvre Museum, but are lined up on the entire 100,000 -square feet site. In the decorative art department.
The collection of this department is diverse from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century, and thousands of items are packed with thousands of items, including medieval armor, Renaissance tapestry, ivory, bronze, pottery, silver products, and furniture. I am.
“It's not easy to enter our museum, especially in the collection,” says Olivier Gave, director of the decorative art category. “Our goal is to be happy, free, and relaxed for more people, various people, and young people. We say to them. You love fashion. “
With the opening of the Louvre on January 24, the Louvre Museum has joined an institution that discovered how to use a popular culture as an entrance to the art world. And fashion has attracted more French museums and art spaces than ever.
Two weeks before the Louvre Museum opened on January 24, Dolce & Gabbana opened a unique fashion show, from the Heart to the Hands in the newly renovated Grand Palaite. This patrol costume retrospective, which was held for the first time in Milan last spring, exhibits more than 200 works in this house in immersive video installations and elaborate sets.
However, this is not an exhibition of an art museum. “This is a more fun experience,” said Florence Muller, a creative director of the exhibition. “It's a secondary intellectual thing. It's not for a museum.”
Next month, the Golden Thread, the Golden Thread, focusing on the art that uses gold to decorate clothing and jewelry at the Ko -Branley Museum of Art, which stores works in Africa, Ocean, American and Asian. In May, Petit Palais, which belongs to Paris, will be held in May, a reimbursement of the British designer, Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895), will be held.
Two fashion museums, one collection of states (decorative art museums), and the other has been held in the city (Palatariera), and has long been a wonderful permanent collection and special exhibition. Recently, luxury groups such as LVMH and King have opened their own art exhibition space. San Laurent, Dior, and Allia have all created a permanent space to exhibit works.
“Museums and fashion have been dancing with each other for decades,” says Pamera Gorbin, formerly curator of the Fashion and Textile's Fashion and Textile. “Now you can see the true approach. This combination is not always successful, but if it triggers the interests of the general public and the perspective of art changes, it will utilize the power of fashion. It will be a wonderful way.
Needless to say, the decisive example of this approach is the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Here, the huge hit exhibition of Costume Institute is one of the museums that attracts the most visitors every year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which acknowledges that fashion has the power to attract visitors, has been renovated to relocate from the basement where the fashion department is currently located to the former gift shop in the large hall, which is a magnificent front door. In the middle of
The Louvre Museum, where 8.7 million people visit in 2024, does not require fashion to increase the number of visitors. On the contrary, the number of visitors per day is limited to 30,000 in order to reduce overcrowding. Only 23 percent of the Louvre's visitors are French. The rest are foreigners. Also, 66 % of the visitors are the first visitors, and almost all of them make a line to see Mona Lisa.
Since he became the director of the museum in 2021, Lorance de Cars has been struggling to attract visitors, young spectators, and more Parisian citizens into the Louvre Museum. She opened the museum a few nights, planned concerts and play, and experimented with dancing and exercise circuits. The new fashion exhibition is perfect for this strategy.
In fact, Ms. De Karl has expressed a great deal of praise in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, so some curators are dissatisfied with the fact that she is obsessed with the Metropolitan Museum.
The Louvre is probably a faint recall of Met Gala, combining a new fashion exhibition during the Paris Fashion Week in March and a gala “Le Grand Dinner Du Rouvre”. Is not a coincidence. A dinner is provided between the cool marlie marble sculptures on the glass roof, and then the dance continues under the pyramid. According to the museum, more than 30 tables have been sold and have already exceeded the donation target of 1 million euros.
For the Louvre Museum, which has already stepped into the fashion world, this exhibition is a natural next step. In 2022, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Sun Laurent's founding, 50 items of Sun Laurent were exhibited from the permanent collections, one of the six famous art museums in France. The Louvre Museum has exhibited four jackets with his embroidery and jewelry near the French crown jewel in the golden Apollo Gallery.
Currently, the small National Ugene Dora Crois Museum, which belongs to the Louvre Museum, is holding an exhibition called “Dress (Dress): Dora Clear and Clothes”, which explores how carefully the painter chooses clothing in paintings. 。 In March, at the Louvre Lance, the satellite museum of the Louvre Museum in northern France, the artists have worn and why they chose them. An exhibition entitled “Arts: Wear like an artist” will be held.
“Art historists often have to know the history of clothing to know the history of art,” he said, a former Director of the French National Library, now the Benzow Pinnow, the Glassia Palace, owned by François Pinnow. According to Bruno Racine, the director of. Founder of King Luxury Group. “This is not artificial.”
Regarding fashion, the Louvre Museum is not comparable to the Metropolitan Museum. Unlike the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre Museum is not a private museum, but a Ministry of Cultural, and eventually the French President, and a limited budgeted national facility with a limited budget.
And the Louvre Museum has no clothes. The cruel irony, the French national textile collection belongs to the museum, but belongs to the decorative art museum, and the decorative museum is located in the vast rubles museum, but it is independent of the Louvre Museum. There is.
In the confidential memo addressed to Rashida Dati, the Minister of Cultural early this month, Ms. De Cals, such as water leaks, temperature changes, overcrowded, insufficient toilet equipment, poor signs, etc. He accused the miserable physical condition.
According to a memo published in Le Parisian newspaper on Thursday, IM Pay was designed to be “very unkind,” even a glass pyramid exhibit was completed in 1989.
However, at least, at least, the decorative art department of the Louvre has one of the best stage equipment for showing fashion, an apartment of the Emperor Napoleon III. The 40 -foot salon theater has a magnificent luxury, such as a crystal chandelier, a ceiling filled with frescoes, a plaster decoration of gold leaf with a vase, and an angel to play musical instruments.
A mannequin with a red silk with embroidered red silk and an amine hem, designed by John Gariano for Christian Dior, is installed in the center of the salon. The gown matches the interior decoration and drape of the red cut velvet in the salon. She seems to be at home.
Elaine Ciorino, who contributes to the New York Times in Paris, is the author of the Louvre Museum of Art, which is scheduled to be published in April 2025, to fall in love with the greatest museum in the world.
