What are the must-see exhibitions in 2025? From fashion to painting, including painting and photography, French Vogue offers an overview of the most anticipated events and retrospectives of the coming year.
From Heart to Hand: Dolce&Gabbana at the Grand Palace
If Milan has the superb Palazzo Reale, Paris has nothing to be ashamed of with the reopening of the splendid Grand Palais. Built from 1897 for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, it has fulfilled its greatest mission for over a hundred years, namely hosting the capital's major official artistic events, including highly anticipated fairs such as Art Basel or Paris Photo. . From January 2025, Dolce & Gabbana is preparing to take over the venue for its exhibition. From Heart to Hand. A first trip abroad after its successful Milanese presentation.
Titled From Heart to Handthe exhibition dedicated to Dolce & Gabbana brings together more than 200 of the fashion house's unique creations, selected by the curator and curator Florence Müller (we owe him exhibitions like Yves Saint Laurent: Retrospective at the Petit Palais in 2010 or Christian Dior: designer of dreams at the Museum of Decorative Arts in 2017). This is spread over ten immersive rooms covering 1,200 m2 and almost as many inspirations which have nourished the work of Dolce & Gabbanaincluding the history of Italian art, music (like not mentioning Madonna and the tour The Girlie Show in 1993?), opera, ballet (the duo collaborated with the choreographer Giuliano Peparini for a parade in 2022) and, of course, the cinema.
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From Heart to Hand: Dolce&Gabbana at the Grand Palais (Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris), from January 10 until March 31, 2025.
Suzanne Valadon at the Pompidou Center
Who could have guessed the outlines of such a brilliant future? Suzanne Valadon is at the origin of a unique itinerary which begins in the world of the circus. The daughter of a washerwoman, she settled at the Butte Montmartre, a place of culture where the thinking minds of the end of the 19th century met. There she discovered the plurality of artistic worlds and launched into performing arts. She trained as a trapeze artist until a serious fall forced her to give up her art. Faced with this ordeal, she finds an alternative at the crossroads of her future profession.
A model from the age of 14 (to support herself), she posed for the greatest painters of the period: Gustave Wertheimerthe symbolists Jean-Jacques Henner et Pierre Puvis de Chavannesthe impressionist Auguste Renoirthe sculptor Paul-Albert Bartholomé but also the young painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec with whom she will have an affair. He's the first to call her Suzanne while his birth name is Marie-Clementine. During the posing sessions, the young woman observes and assimilates the pictorial techniques. The beginnings of a great career. This is told in a major retrospective. This is the ideal opportunity to find out more about the great Suzanne Valadon.
