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The flowers of Yves saint Laurant

Paris >20.09.2024 -04.052025

Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé lived their daily lives surrounded by flowers and gardens in their apartments, their secondary homes and at their fashion house. Passionate about flowers, the couturier found them to be an infinite source of inspiration.

Yves Saint Laurent shared this admiration for nature with many artists and writers, in particular with one of his favorite authors, Marcel Proust, as he revealed in the magazine L'Egoïste in 1987*. A Proustian universe appears in the designer’s interiors as well as during his runway shows. The writer would describe women as flowers, whereas the couturier would pay homage to them by covering them with blossoms.

Over thirty garments and drawings seen in the exhibition highlight this symbiosis between nature, literature and the work of Yves Saint Laurent.

As in a book, each chapter of the exhibition displays quotes from Proust alongside flowering silhouettes by Yves Saint Laurent, while accessories and drawings by the couturier are presented on pedestals. As if along a garden path, flowers are everywhere one turns, revealing the personality and tastes of the designer: from the lily of the valley so dear to Christian Dior to the YSL logo with its initialled lily-like monogram, from roses signifying love to the bougainvillea of Morocco, or to wheat, the bearer of luck and triumph.

Through iconic garments seen in the exhibition, the visitor discovers the expertise that Yves Saint Laurent drew upon to bring his floral creations to life: from his earliest applied embroidery on the spring-summer dress of 1962 to his inventive prints from the spring-summer 2001 collection, an unforgettable reference to the paintings of Pierre Bonnard.

We see the larger-than-life silk gazar flowers worn on the runway by Laetitia Casta as a summer bride in 1999, an enduring image from the oeuvre of Yves Saint Laurent.

This spontaneous dialogue between the arts and different eras continues as we come face to face with the work of the American artist Sam Falls, whose works are seen throughout the exhibition. Traveling the world, he gathers plant samples and preserves the memory of floral landscapes by directly printing their pigments on canvas. The patterns and colors of his reconstructed take on nature blend harmoniously with those seen on the haute couture pieces. In the clothing of Yves Saint Laurent, as in the paintings of Sam Falls, flowers transcend time and remain eternally in bloom.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumwebsite

Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Paris 5, avenue Marceau,
75116 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: museeyslparis.com/en/exhibitions/les-fleurs-dyves-saint-laurent

fashion-in-the-time-of-giacomo-casanova

Venedig >07.03.2025 . 27.07.2025

Der Verführer. Erneuerung des männlichen Bildes zur Zeit Casanovas

An icon of a world and a civilisation, Giacomo Casanova is a remarkable key to understanding 18th-century Europe: the world of the great courts and powerful dynasties, exciting encounters with leading figures in art and culture, the enthralling uncertainties of gambling and of the boundless, many-sided theatrical metamorphoses. The exhibition of 18th-century garments – partly from the collections of the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Centro Studi di Storia del Tessuto e del Costume – takes us into the 18th-century world in which Casanova was one of the most illustrious figures. The exhibition, organised in the rooms of the first piano nobile of the museum, already styled in 18th-century Venetian taste, helps us understand how greatly aesthetics formed an essential language, not only in seduction but above all in the social rise of the individual, in an age when appearances were the only way to assert one’s social and economic position.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite

Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo
Santa Croce 1992,
30135 Venezia
Italien

weitere Infos: mocenigo.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/fashion-in-the-time-of-giacomo-casanova/2025/02/21056/exhibition-fashion-casanova/

Sens dessus dessous

Roubaix ( F)>01.03.2025 - 08.06.2025

Topsy Turvy

With her hair unstyled and wearing no make-up, a large straw hat placed simply on her head, she was dressed in a puffy muslin dress with a breezy transparent fabric. This was the state of (un)dress in which Queen Marie-Antoinette had her portrait painted by Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun in 1783. The scandal was momentous: To silence the rumour mill, the Louvre replaced this unconventional royal portrait. At the time when the dignity of one’s aristocratic lineage was necessarily reflected in a stately demeanour, an “unkept” queen, wearing a nightgown and posing as if in a private moment, was inconceivable. However, at court, many women embraced the look, which was deemed provocative. This was the moment when the undergarment could officially be worn on top. There is a dotted line linking the “chemise à la reine” (queen’s shirt) worn by Marie-Antoinette with the daring peekaboo trend of the 2000s, characterised by its underwear elastics that peeked out above a pair of low-rise trousers and other baggy bottoms. Whether it is the underwear, outerwear or intimate garments for all to see, there has been a lot of confusion throughout the ages. The textiles, cuts, colour palettes and materials associated with underwear glide across the surface of the body challenging the moral conventions of modesty.

As part of the exhibition of intimate and organic forms created by the ceramicist Elsa Sahal, the fashion cabins of La Piscine are filled with objects from the museum’s collection illustrating the words of the 18th century French writer, Louis Antoine Caraccioli: “art is often more prevalent in undress than in finery”.

This exhibition is presented in the spaces dedicated to the permanent collections, with free admission on every first Sunday of the month.

Scientific curator and management: Amélie Boron, head of the fashion collection, La Piscine – André Diligent museum of art and industry

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto:© Joëlle Rousseau)

La Piscine
23, rue de l’Espérance
F-59100 ROUBAIX
Frankreich

weitere Infos: www.roubaix-lapiscine.com/en/exhibitions/coming-up/topsy-turvy/

Say Yes

Rotterdam (NL) > 31.01.2025 - 26.10.2025

Say Yes - International trends in wedding fashion

Discover the vibrance and meaning of wedding fashion at the SAY YES exhibition at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam. From January 31 to October 26, 2025, embark on an inspiring journey through wedding traditions and modern designs from various cultures. Be amazed by iconic creations, innovative trends, and the deeper stories behind this extraordinary fashion.

Wedding attire is much more than just a dress or suit; it is an expression of identity, tradition, and connection. With SAY YES, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam invites you into the rich world of international wedding fashion. From January 31 to October 26, 2025, explore how wedding styles from different cultures are being rediscovered and how traditional elements are innovatively reinterpreted in contemporary design.

In this exhibition, past and present come together in a colourful, inspiring journey through wedding trends. SAY YES highlights seven themes: white, colour, tradition, unconventional, extravagant, simple, and sustainable.

From sophisticated creations by fashion icons like Zuhair Murad and Gucci to the playful designs of Dutch designer Bas Kosters, the contemporary vision of Bayanda Khathini from South Africa, and the groundbreaking designs of Queera Wang from New York. In addition to wedding attire, the exhibition also features accessories, jewelry, headpieces, shoes, and historical and modern photographs of newlyweds.

Be dazzled by original designs, fresh inspiration, and breathtaking beauty. SAY YES highlights how wedding fashion is not only a symbol of love but also of cultural identity, diversity, connection, and sustainability.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite

Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
Willemskade 25
3016 DM Rotterdam
Niederlande

weitere Infos: rotterdam.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/say-yes?_gl=1*17nk3lh*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTI2NTMxMzk2NS4xNzQyNzYxODU2*_ga_TPGM95SP38*MTc0Mjc2MTg1Ni4xLjEuMTc0Mjc2MjI3NC4wLjAuMA..

Glitzer

Hamburg (D) > 28.2. - 26.10.2025

Glitzer funkelt und flirrt, fasziniert und empört. Es ist auf Bühnen ebenso zu finden wie auf Protestplakaten und in Kinderzimmern. Glitzer ist omnipräsent – und doch ist das MK&G weltweit das erste Haus, das diesem Material eine Ausstellung widmet. Der Schwerpunkt der Ausstellung liegt auf Glitzer als Symbol für Zugehörigkeit, Empowerment und Selbstbestimmung und beleuchtet den Einsatz in politischen Kontexten und kollektiven Bewegungen. Rund 40 internationale Positionen aus Kunst und Gestaltung widmen sich Glitzer als Ausdruck der Freude an gesellschaftlicher Vielfalt und kollektiver Ausgelassenheit, als Mittel des Protests, der Performance und Popkultur, als Symbol der Sichtbarmachung marginalisierter Gruppen und des Widerstands gegen Körpernormen. Gezeigt werden unter anderem ein glitzerndes Jugendzimmer der Hamburger Künstlerin Jenny Schäfer, Fotografien von Quil Lemons, Skateboards von Mickalene Thomas, GIFs von Molly Soda, Show-Perücken der Hamburger Designer Karl Gadzali und Mohamad Barakat-Götz für Olivia Jones und ein Bühnenoutfit von Bill Kaulitz.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Museum für Kunst
und Gewerbe Hamburg
Steintorplatz
20099 Hamburg
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.mkg-hamburg.de/ausstellungen/glitzer

LOUVRE COUTUREArt and fashion: statement pieces

Paris (F) > 25.01. - 21.07.2025

Although we have known since the days of Paul Cézanne that ‘the Louvre is the book from which we learn to read’, this inexhaustible wellspring of inspiration has also nourished one of contemporary art’s liveliest domains: the world of fashion. More and more, research and monographs dedicated to the greats of fashion have boldly begun to trace aesthetic family trees, establishing these figures in a historical and artistic context. The pattern is not merely one of disruptions, with various degrees of radical innovation, or of seasonal changes, but also one of echoes and evocations. The threads weaving their way between the work of great fashion figures and the world of art are almost endless, and the history of art as expressed by the Musée du Louvre, in the depth of its collections and in the ways it reflects the tastes of days gone by, is an equally vast terrain of influences and sources. In consideration of the Louvre’s encyclopaedic immensity, this exhibition follows a methodological approach geared towards exploring the history of decorative styles, art professions and ornamentation through the galleries of the Department of Decorative Arts, where textiles are omnipresent – though generally in tapestries and other décor items rather than in articles of clothing. Over a nearly 9,000-square-metre space, 65 designs are displayed, along with a number of accessories, newly illuminating the close historical dialogue that continues to take place between the world of fashion and the department’s greatest masterpieces, from Byzantium to the Second Empire. Each of these garments and accessories is on special loan from the most iconic fashion houses, both long-standing and recent, in Paris and throughout the world. The pieces will not be displayed aimlessly throughout the Department of Decorative Arts, but rather will serve as an occasion to highlight existing parallels: the department owes part of its collection to the generosity of great fashion figures, from Jacques Doucet to Madame Carven. These countless connections embrace common methodological ground in the fields of art history and fashion: knowledge of ancestral techniques, visual culture and the subtle interplay of references, from the catalogue raisonné of the museum to the moodboard of the fashion world. ‘Louvre Couture’ offers a new perspective on decorative arts through the prism of contemporary fashion design.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Louvre
Department of Decorative Arts
107 Rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: www.louvre.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/louvre-couture

Golden Thread The art of dressing from north Africa to the far east

Paris ( F ) > 11.02.2025 - 06.07.2025

From the Maghreb to Japan, a fabulous journey through time and space, discovering the mysterious and fascinating origins of gold and its marriage with the textile arts.

The world's most precious and noble metal, an object of envy, a symbol of wealth and splendour, a sign of elegance and refinement...
Discovered nearly 7,000 years ago, gold has never ceased to fascinate mankind. The ultimate material for all kinds of expertise, experimentation and tradition, it has been used since antiquity to make jewellery, ornaments and weapons. As early as the fifth millennium B.C., it was used to embellish the first luxury fabrics for men of power. Over the centuries that followed, skilled weavers and craftsmen Roman, Byzantine, Chinese, Persian and then Muslim used the most ingenious techniques to create veritable fabrics of art where silk or linen fibres were intertwined with gold threads and strips.

From the first ornaments sewn onto the garments of the deceased to the flamboyant dresses of contemporary Chinese artist Guo Pei that are found throughout the exhibition, from the gold-woven silks of the Indian and Indonesian worlds to the glittering kimonos of the Edo era, this exhibition reveals the age-old history of gold in the textile arts. In a dialogue combining scientific discoveries and artistic perspectives, it unveils the dazzling beauty, diversity, richness and the technical nature of the outfits of a vast region from the Maghreb to Japan, including the countries of the Middle East, India, and China.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite

Musee du Quai Branly - Jaques Chirac
37 Quai Branly
75007 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: www.quaibranly.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/at-the-museum/exhibitions/event-details/e/au-fil-de-lor

Dior/ Lindbergh

Paris (F) > bis 04.05.2025

Dior through the lens of a great photographer! Since October, the Galerie Dior has been devoting an exhibition to its collaboration with Peter Lindbergh, a great name in fashion photography. A hundred of his shots of Dior creations are on display until May 2025. The German photographer Peter Lindbergh, who died in 2019, left behind some of fashion’s finest images. Alongside Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Helmut Newton, Lindbergh is one of those artists who have linked their name and career to fashion! As a contributor to the most prestigious fashion magazines, such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Lindbergh hits the bull’s-eye with his uncluttered style! Peter Lindbergh’s style? Black-and-white shots and models photographed without artifice, almost au naturel! The world’s most beautiful women have paraded before his lens, from Kate Moss and Catherine Deneuve to the supermodels of the 90s! Galerie Dior is currently devoting an exhibition to the photographer and his collaborations with the house from 1988 to 2018. Around one hundred of his works are presented alongside creations by the house. This encounter allows us to better visualize the relationship between Dior and Lindbergh, and to showcase the photographer’s vision of certain outfits.

 Text - und Bildquelle: https://parissecret.com/en/dior-lindbergh-exhibition/

Veranstalter/ Ort
La Galeria Dior
11 Rue François 1er
75008 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: www.galeriedior.com/de

Legends of Workwear

Borås ( S ) > 20.02.25 - 18.5.2025

Fristads 100 years – The carpenter trousers as a design icon and workwear as a force for change in the textile industry.

Welcome to an exhibition about how Fristad became synonymous with workwear and how workwear took on a central role in the circular transformation of the industry. Today, carpenter trousers are essential attire for both professional craftsmen and DIY enthusiasts. But 100 years ago, the concept of protective clothing didn’t exist in Sweden, which Fristads' founder John Magnuson saw as an opportunity and an exciting challenge. As the Borås-based company Fristads celebrates its 100th anniversary, we invite you on a journey through the history of workwear. Fristads has been at the forefront of innovation and environmental efforts—from protecting welders at Götaverken from burning sparks to becoming the first in the world to measure emissions associated with clothing, developing circular service offerings, and providing clothing for professional users in everything from the service and food sectors to the energy and automotive industries. Legends of Workwear delves into the evolution of workwear and is a tribute to 100 years of durability, functionality, comfort, and innovation. The exhibition is produced by Fristads in collaboration with the Textile Museum of Sweden.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Textilmuseet
Skaraborgsvägen 3A,
Borås
Schweden

weitere Infos: textilmuseet.se/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/2024-11-14-legends-of-workwear

Clothes & Couture

Borås (S) > Dauerausstellung

Clothes & Couture tells the story of the creation of Swedish everyday fashion, which was inspired by the couture exhibitions held in Paris between the 1930s and 1970s. We welcome you to a retrospective exhibition about the Borås company Bröderna Magnusson (‘the Magnusson Brothers’), and its journey through fashion history. In the ‘Clothes & Couture’ exhibition, the Textile Museum of Sweden shows how twentieth-century Paris fashion was reinterpreted to create practical clothes for women in Sweden. The exhibition how the Borås company Bröderna Magnusson Damkonfektionsfabrik AB, like many others in the business, took their inspiration from the undisputed capital of fashion: Paris. The manufacture of and trade in ready-made clothes developed during the twentieth century to become one of Sweden’s staple industries. The town of Borås and the surrounding area became a centre for the ready-made clothing industry, and the garments produced here were sold all over the country. One of the companies was Bröderna Magnusson’s, which manufactured womenswear at a somewhat higher price point, featuring advanced cuts and hand-sewn details. All clothes were designed by the company’s head of design, Ylva Segh, who regularly visited the couture shows in Paris. Bröderna Magnusson’s paid great attention to detail, and the garments were produced using a high level of craftsmanship despite being made in a factory. The Textile Museum of Sweden has created slideshows showing the details of the clothing, and developed patterns based on selected garments that have been transformed into three-dimensional animations so as to show visitors how they were constructed. For those who enjoy sewing themselves, there will be sewing patterns available for purchase. These include the useful ‘Pop-Around’ dress from 1953, which was marketed as an everyday, house and party dress. The exhibition was designed in collaboration with the paper artist Bea Szenfeld and includes both large and small installations by her, inspired by the themes of the exhibition.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Textilmuseet
Skaraborgsvägen 3A,
Borås
Schweden

weitere Infos: textilmuseet.se/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/2022-03-03-clothes--couture