Apart from the podiums of Men’s Fashion Week where designers present their fall-winter 2025-26 collection from January 21 to 26, Paris is teeming with places, often free, where fashion creation is in the spotlight.
Paris is a creative breeding ground. No need for parade invitation cards to enjoy exhibitions dedicated to Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent, Stephen Jones, Peter Lindbergh, among others, in prestigious places or museums in the capital.
“From Heart to Hand: Dolce & Gabbana” at the Grand Palais
After a launch at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, where it was internationally acclaimed – and sold out throughout its duration – the exhibition From Heart to Hand: Dolce&Gabbana is at the Grand Palais in Paris. Bringing together for the first time more than 200 of the luxury fashion house’s unique creations, it is an open love letter to Italian culture, a constant source of inspiration for Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Retracing the aesthetic journey of their creations, first carried in their hearts, then executed by hand in their workshops, it also presents the unpublished works of contemporary artists who dialogue with the world of the Italian duo.
Exhibition “From Heart to Hand: Dolce&Gabbana” until March 31. Grand Palace. 7avenue Winston Churchill. 75008 Paris.
“The Flowers of Yves Saint Laurent” at the Yves Saint Laurent museum
Lhe Flowers by Yves Saint Laurent : a major theme in the couturier’s work is at the heart of the exhibition held at the Yves Saint-Laurent museum in Paris. It is in reality the second part designed by curators Olivier Saillard and Gaël Mamine which follows a first chapter started at the Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech museum. The exhibition explores the designer’s view through around thirty textile silhouettes and drawings which highlight the symbiosis between the designer’s work, nature and literature. With his companion Pierre Bergé, he lived surrounded by flowers and gardens in his apartments, his second homes and his fashion house. A lover of flora, he found there an infinite source of inspiration. He shares this admiration for nature with artists and writers, particularly with Marcel Proust, one of his favorite authors. The writer’s world shines through in the designer’s interiors as much as in his fashion shows: when the first likes to describe women as flowers, the second covers them with them to pay homage to them. Thus, throughout the exhibition, the dresses covered with flowers face quotes from Proust.
Exhibition “Les Fleurs d’Yves Saint Laurent”, until May 4. Yves Saint Laurent Museum(New window)5 avenue Marceau, 75116 Paris.
Peter Lindbergh at the Dior Gallery
A place of Art(s) and memory, from Christian Dior to Maria Grazia Chiuri, this museum embodies both the spirit of Parisian couture and the aura of a house in perpetual movement. For the first time, the gallery tells the story of Dior over seventy years of existence through the eye of photographer Peter Lindbergh. The new rotation of the Dior Avenue Gallery Montaigne, in Paris, pays homage to one of the greatest fashion photographers of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century,Peter Lindbergh. Designed with the support of its foundation and deployed within the gallery spaces, this retrospective reveals photographs from legendary series, contact sheets, previously unpublished reading prints and, for the first time, the photo shoot carried out in the streets of New York, at Time Square, in 2018. A spiral staircase in the center of the diorama – atrium presenting 1,874 Dior objects in miniature version, including 450 mini-dresses, based on historical models and available in the colors of the rainbow – marks the starting point of the exhibition Dior/Lindbergh, the sixth since the location opened in 2022.
Exposition “Dior/Lindbergh” until May 4. Reserving a time slot is recommended on the site galeriedior.com(New window)(New window). . 11, rue François 1er. 75008 Paris. The gallery is open every day, except Tuesday, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
“Stephen Jones, artist hats” at the Palais Galliera
Stephen Jones occupies a unique position behind the scenes of fashion: the British milliner has participated in the most iconic collections of many houses. Focus on twelve breathtaking collaborations! For the first time in more than forty years, an exhibition at the Palais Galliera is dedicated to an accessory, the hat. Stephen Jones, artist hats presents the work of this British designer – undoubtedly one of the greatest contemporary milliners – from his first collections in the 1980s to his most recent ones. Incredibly rich in 400 works, it brings together 170 hats, archives – preparatory drawings, photographs, excerpts from fashion shows – and around forty silhouettes. The first part of the tour focuses on his creative process, the sources of inspiration behind his creations and the link that the artist maintains with Paris, French culture and Parisian couture. In the second part, the milliner plunges into the world of another designer and imagines the hat as the punctuation of a silhouette at the heart of a collection.
Exposition “Stephen Jones, artist hats” until March 16. Palais Galliera, Paris Fashion Museum, 10 avenue Pierre Ier de Serbia. 75116 Paris.
“Stage jewelry from the Paris Opera” at the Palais Garnier
The fascinating world of stage jewelry from the Paris Opera is revealed at the Palais Garnier in an exhibition presented by the Paris National Opera and the National Library of France. With a selection of spectacular jewelry, worn during operas or ballets, it reveals their dramaturgical importance and the secrets of making these pieces whose key word is illusion. More than 70 jewels, reflections of the rich collection of stage jewels of the Paris Opera – preserved at the Opera Library-Museum and worn by the greatest names in lyrical or choreographic art such as Célestine Galli-Marié , the creator of the role of Carmen, Maria Taglioni, one of the first dancers to wear pointe shoes or Ida Rubinstein – but also more contemporary creations from the workshops of the Opera, are on display.
Exhibition “Stage jewelry from the Paris Opera” until March 28. Library-museum of the Opera Palais Garnier. 75009 Paris. Every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“Paris, capital of pearls” at the School of Jewelry Arts
Around a hundred pieces from prestigious collections are presented to tell the forgotten story of an artistic, commercial and human adventure. Who doesn’t know the pearl, sought after since ancient times and a source of inspiration for the greatest modern jewelers? The exhibition is being held at its new Parisian address on the Grands Boulevards. Paris, capital of Pearl offered by the School of Jewelry Arts. At the crossroads of history, art and science, this exhibition unravels the last mysteries of the biomineral that is the pearl. After a gemological introduction to its origins, it traces the history of this jewelry passion from the end of the 19th century to the present day. A A hundred pieces are presented, coming from around twenty of the most prestigious lenders, such as the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris, the Petit Palais, the heritage collections of the houses of Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier and Fred or the exceptional collection private Albion Art.
Exposition “Paris, capital of pearls, until June 1st. The School of Jewelry Arts(New window). Mercy-Argenteau Hotel, 16 bis boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris. Tuesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Late night until 9 p.m. on Thursday. Free entry upon reservation.
“The Saga of the department stores” at the Cité de l’architecture
Multidisciplinary, the exhibition The Department Store Saga. From 1850 to the present brings together 500 original works from unpublished collections from department stores. Combining architecture, economy, society and the arts, it invites a very rich return to the past. Through a scenography recreating the experience of these temples of consumption, the exhibition shows how these places reflect the evolution of our societies from their golden age (1850 -1930), to the sales machine (1930-1980), then to their questioning from the 1980s until today. The visit is chronological, geographical, national and international: “Ct is an architectural story but not only that, it is also social, economic, commercial, cultural and artistic. She shows how department stores, through their evolution, inform us as much as they contribute to illuminating the emotions of the society in which we still operate today”, says one of the trois curators of the exhibition. Isabelle Marquette and Elvira Férault are responsible for the historical part and Christelle Lecoeur for the contemporary part.
Exposition “The Department Store Saga. From 1850 to the present day”, until April 6. City of architecture and heritage(New window)1 place du Trocadéro, 75016 Paris.
The exhibition offers a unique dialogue between the masterpieces of the museum’s Objects of Art department and significant pieces from the history of contemporary fashion, between the years 1960 and 2025, from Cristóbal Balenciaga to Iris van Herpen . Throughout a journey through the very heart of the museum’s collections, over 9,000 square meters, there are around a hundred silhouettes and accessories that resonate with the history of decorative arts, that of styles, of craftsmanship. art and ornament, illustrating the very close links that unite fashion and art. For the first time, forty-five houses and designers, among the most emblematic in the history of fashion, lent pieces to spark or highlight connections.
Exhibition “Louvre Couture. Objects of art, fashion objects” from January 24 to July 21. Louvre. Louvre pyramid. 75001 Paris.
