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For the first time, the Musée du Louvre is opening its doors to fashion, initiating a fruitful dialogue between the finest fashion creations and the museum's objets d'art department, showing how precious objects, from Byzantium to the Second Empire, have fuelled the imagination of...
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Written in French
For the first time, the Musée du Louvre is opening its doors to fashion, initiating a fruitful dialogue between the finest fashion creations and the museum's objets d'art department, showing how precious objects, from Byzantium to the Second Empire, have fuelled the imagination of designers, in terms of their motifs, techniques and materials.
The forty or so designers on show, from 1960 to the present day, include Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Balenciaga and Carven, as well as up-and-coming young talents. The exhibition also pays tribute to the little-known Marie-Louise Carven, the great couturier and founder of Carven. A great art collector, she donated around a hundred French eighteenth-century objects to the museum in 1973.
Beaux Arts Éditions, in association with the Musée du Louvre, is publishing the official album of the exhibition, looking back at the influences between the decorative arts and fashion, a dialogue that is omnipresent today. The publication will highlight the exceptional scenography with a campaign of exclusive photographs.
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