From January 24 to July 21, 2025, the Louvre will open the doors of its new exhibition focused on fashion. A first in the history of the largest and most famous museum in the world in the capital of couture.
The appointment is set and already highly anticipated. While couture silhouettes have already been exhibited at the Louvre, the museum has never orchestrated a presentation 100% dedicated to fashion. In 2025, the Parisian cultural entity will highlight around 65 outfits and 30 accessories from the greatest designers and luxury houses. A way to celebrate this art while making it dialogue with a plurality of creative spheres, and this, across the centuries.
Fashion at the Louvre
The Louvre is climbing the catwalks. Early next year, from January 24 to July 21, 2025 (subject to change), the museum in the 1st arrondissement of Paris will welcome fashion enthusiasts to its sublime galleries. This mecca of culture and art will unveil a historic exhibition entirely devoted to fashion.
Called Fashion at the Louvre, the presentation aims to create a dialogue between fashion and the institution’s collections, with treasures from the Middle Ages to the Byzantine era, including the Second Empire and the contemporary era.
“Studies and monographs devoted to the great names of fashion do not hesitate to trace aesthetic genealogies that place these personalities in a historical and artistic perspective. The rhythm is not only that of ruptures, more or less radical, nor of seasonal change: it is that of echoes and reminders.” explained the Louvre Museum.
As for fashion, no fewer than 65 looks and 30 accessories will be exhibited on nearly 10,000 m2, as reported by WWD. The pieces will range from the 1960s to today and will communicate with the historical objects of the Louvre. A nice journey between the past and the present that will allow to connect fashion and its various inspirations through time.
Some forty iconic designers and brands will be represented on the exhibition, such as Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana and Yohji Yamamoto. Younger-generation designers will be showcased. The couturier and founder of Carven, Marie-Louise Carven, will also be honored for both her clothing work and her art collector’s hat. The designer also donated around a hundred 18th-century French objects to the Louvre in 1973.
An exhibition organized by two fashion and art specialists
There is no doubt that the exhibition will be a success since it is conceived by two great names in the history of fashion. The curator of the event is none other than Olivier Gabet, director of the Department of Decorative Arts at the Louvre, and former director of the Museum of Decorative Arts, the MAD, an entity a stone’s throw from the Louvre known for its fashion presentations.
In terms of scenography, Nathalie Crinière is in charge. Specializing in exhibition layouts and interior architecture, her agency has designed presentations around Iris van Herpen and Elsa Schiaparelli at the MAD, Fashion Folklore at the Mucem in Marseille, Cartier & Women in Hong Kong and the Gianni Versace retrospective at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. Nathalie Crinière is also the mastermind behind the layout of the Dior gallery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
