Exhibition until 21th of February  Grand Palais   Salon d’honneur – Square Jean Perrin

Poster of the exhibition Louis Vuitton

A great exhibition staged by Robert Carsen, the decor of the differents rooms, like a jewel casket, is based on items used for the trunks manufacture, brass, leather, wood, linen, Louis Vuitton Monogram…

Divided into nine themes, it recounts the adventure of the trunk maker, said his innovative and daring spirit runs through the emblematic history and savoir faire of the House, from 1854 to nowdays.

It invites us to the art and the refinements of trips in all forms: car, train, yachting, cruise, aviation.

Exhibition Louis Vuitton yatching

Exhibition Louis Vuitton large trunk for car driver

Exhibition Louis Vuitton yatching

Wardrobe trunks, shoe trunks, secretary trunks, bed trunk, picnic trunks, tea trunks, toilet cases, hand luggages, leather goods, the most sophisticated and surprising commands tell and illustrate a new life style linked to the evolution of trips.

Exhibition Louis Vuitton warderobe trunk

Exhibition Louis Vuitton toilet case

Exhibition Louis Vuitton warderobe trunk

Exhibition Louis Vuitton bed trunk

Exhibition Louis Vuitton classic trunks

Classic trunks, objects and archives from Louis Vuitton’s heritage enrich the exhibition, pieces of the past interact with the latest creations of Marc Jacobs, Nicolas Ghesquière and collaborations of artists: Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami …

Exhibition Louis Vuitton archive

Exhibiition Louis Vuitton – checkerboard pattern- hand luggage

Exhibition Louis Vuitton luggage Marc Jacobs and classic trunk

Exhibition Louis Vuitton dress with emblematic checkerboard pattern

Exxhibition louis Vuitton Monogram Takashi Murakami

Exhibition Louis Vuitton curent trunk

Courrèges

Cristobal Balenciaga’s fashion assistant for eleven years, André Courrèges learned the trade and technicals features.
He opened his own house in 1961, very inspired by architecture, science fiction, sport, Courrèges style combines these elements in a highly structured creation, with very studied volumes: the size of the lengths and waist placements are calculated according to a general style.

He integrates the wearing of trousers to the feminin wardrobe for the day and the evening, mini skirts and mini dresses are needed to outfits without folds or tongs, made in flawless drape dry wool , they are wearing with socks and with small flange very flat shoes, or with white leather boots with stitching marked mid-calf for a trompe l’oeil effect.

Courrèges

Courrèges

Courrèges

Details of cuts, rounded pockets, use of two-colored stripes, trapeze volumes, glasses and hats complete in a playful spirit his outfits, giving his creations a deliberately graphic vision.

Courrèges

Courrèges

Courrèges

Courrèges

Courrèges

Courrèges

André Courrèges dresses a decidedly modern and active women, like Françoise Hardy, Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, Jacky Kennedy…

Catherine Deneuve en Courrèges

Courrèges

Françoise Hardy en Courrèges

He uses new materials: vinyl, nylon, dares transparency, offers tights and knitted suits ribs 2X2 with cables, giving a futurist style free of all reference to the past .

Courrèges

Courrèges

Courrèges

He launched the concept of “Couture Future” in 1967 and creates the official clothing of the 1972 Olympic Games, he plays the card of ready-to-wear and democratizes fashion by segmenting his creations in three prices categories.
Today he influences and still inspires the creators; Marc Jacobs, Nicolas Ghesquière, Simon Gate Jacquemus …
Now the talented Coperni creative duo, Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant took over the artistic direction of the House Courreges …

Courrèges

Courrèges

Courrèges

                                                             HAPPY NEW YEAR

                                          Brillant, PASSIONATE, Stylish, INSPIRED…

Velvet invites itself on the catwalks and takes control of our shoes for the Autumn / Winter season.
It dresses them with variable reflections playing with light and the depth of its shades to showcase our outfits.
it dares color and asserts itself on sometimes minimalist forms, agrees with jewelery details and damask in a rococo spirit, is adorned with embroidery and appliqué, is combined with the transparency of Plexiglas, plays with laces and straps, comes with leather, is used in hot / cold contrast with the metal, shape our legs with endless thigh high boots.
Ballerinas, babies, sandals, slippers, platform-shoes, boots, pumps, derbies, flat or heeled, all have adorned this rich material to enhance our figure …

Gianvito Rossi

Marc Jacobs

Jimmy Choo

Dries Van Noten

Stella Mc Cartney

Emilio Pucci

Marie Katrantzou

Alexander Mc Queen

Alberta Ferretti

Dolce &amp: Gabana

Amélie Pichard

Dolce & Gabana

Derek Lam

Initially, the sailor blouse is a blue and white striped knit: 21 white stripes 20 millimeters and 20 indigo blue stripes 10 millimeters width with long sleeve imposed to the sailors by the Navy in 1858.

With the discovery of beach’s pleasures, bathing suit borrows its striped blue and white graphics, Gabrielle Chanel reinterprets this functional and male piece and launched his short sailor blouse in Deauville in 1917, impressing the spirit “cruising” to the feminine closet .

Les joies de la plage

Gabrielle Chanel

It becomes a unisex wardrobe element , Pablo Picasso, Jean Seberg, Brigitte Bardot and many others will embrace it.

Pablo Picasso

Jean Seberg

Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Paul Gaultier will seize and revisit this basic associating lace, sequins, Swarovski crystals …

The sailor blouse is now present in our closet, it is reinvented, re-colored, embroidered, suitable in many versions …

Yves Saint Laurent

Sonia Rykiel

Isabel Marant

Miu Miu

Jean Paul Gaultier

Paul & Joe

Exhibition until October 31, 2015 at the European House of Photography 5/7 rue de Fourcy 75004 Paris

Exposition Alber Elbaz / Lanvin maison Européenne de la Photographie

« In the digital era, we live through our screens, put in pictures of the moment. We don’t longer look we’re filming. We don’t listen, we record. And we don’t speak longer, we download ” Alber Elbaz, artistic director of Lanvin.

An immersion in the creative world of Alber Elbaz, and the atmosphere of Lanvin runways. Five rooms reveal the work’s creator, a path between fashion and photography.
More than 350 photographs signed from But Sou Lai, Mark Leibowitz, Katy Reiss, James Bort, Juliette Da Cunha and Alex Koo.

Exhibition until July 19, 2015 Arts Décoratifs Museum Paris

The exhibition is an opportunity to present and highlight the Loic Allio’s unique collection in the world.
Through a selection of clothing and accessories for male and female, iconic fashion designers, such as: Paul Poiret, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier … over 3000 buttons tell their story.

Affiche de l’exposition

Boutons papillons Schiaparelli

Chronologically organized, it attests to the amazing creativity in the diversity of technics, the most sophisticated are used for this accessory: embroidery, carving, chasing, trimmings …
Mirror of the evolution of knowledge, the most diverse surfaces: porcelain, shell, wood, glass, string, fur, horn, leather, cameo, ceramics, paper mache, nacre … were exploited to work the button.
They are in turn utilitarian objects, ornaments, messages objects, miniature paintings objects, poetic objects, humorous objects, witnesses objects of historical facts: the French Revolution, the abolition of slavery …
Operated in the infinite possibilities of colors, patterns, sizes, shapes, investments, emblems of fashion houses, they decorate ,to suit their fancy, clothes and accessories across every style and period …

Boîtier boutons portraits

Boutons verre et fleurs Schiaparelli

Bouton Révolution Française

Bouton Révolution Française

Bouton Art Nouveau

Bouton Faïence Wedgwood

They seize our hair to style our outfits and blow a romantic air to the spring-summer season !!
During the day, in the evening, to customize a bridal silhouette, they bloom our hairstyles.

Alternetly, they are organized in bucolic vegetable crown, so goddess,

 
mix with fruit, agree with lace,

 
lay on a low bun,

 
underline a high bun,

 
wrap in a twisted bun,

 
keep a veil,

 
emphasize in size XXL,

 
or in cascading micro flowers on hair down, overrun a tulle fabric,

 
look glamorous with a veil,

 
worn as Frida Kahlo,

 
triumph in a capillary bouquet.

 
Real accessories they deploy their weapons of seduction in fresh flowers or artificial way to enrich our closet…

Until August 3th 2015  National Galeries Grand Palais   Paris

The retrospective gather 175 haute couture and ready-to-wear pieces created between 1976 and 2014, sketches, film extracts, fashion shows and concerts, illustrations of his multiple artistic collaborations.

The exhibition celebrates the daring, the creative diversity of the designer, explores his sources of inspiration in which humor, impertinence are next to the know-how of exception of the fashion art crafts.

An attractive setting in light of the diversity of details in the materials and their assemblies: trompe l’oeil, lacing-up, lace, leather, denim … his free and tolerant view, opened on the differences and the mixing of cultural references which never allows himself to be closed in established codes.

It includes the iconic pieces of the “enfant terrible” of fashion: sailor blouses, corsets, masculine skirts … orchestrated by a creative scenography where models come to life by the projection game on faces, with the Catherine Deneuve’s voice over during the reconstruction of a fashion show.

The exhibition also leaves room for fashion photography through superb prints of renowned contemporary photographers: Andy Warhol, Peter Lindbergh, Pierre et Gilles, Richard Avedon, Cindy Sherman …

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

Jumpsuit, short or long skirt, dress, pants, shorts, trench coat, shirt, jacket … denim invades our closet this season.

Chloé

Martin Grant

Chloé

Masculine spirit worn, casual stonewashed

Casual

Dsquared

Gucci

Worked like a patchwork in different washes, or with oversized lace up details

Irfé

Chanel

Gucci

Raw, in a workwear spirit with XXL volumes

Sonia Rykiel

chloé

Maison Martin Margiela

It is adorned with feathers, embroidered in a baroque spirit, or customized with glitter projections

Burberry

Dolce & Gabbana

Ashish

It flirts with chiffon, plays with stitchings and tames lace with appliqué

Alberta Ferretti

Opening Ceremony

Leonard