On the 9,000 m² of its first floor, the museum presents, alongside its collections, 71 creations by Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, Alaïa, Gaultier and even van Herpen. A dialogue as original as it is flamboyant.
From the Scipion gallery of the Louvre, among the display cases of painted enamel dishes and ewers dating from the Renaissance, between the Gobelins tapestries which told Louis XIV of the triumph of Rome over Carthage, 71 wildly dressed silhouettes have just been displayed surroundings.
Thus, throughout these 9,000 m² of the art objects department, on their shimmering podium signed Nathalie Crinière – or in the windows themselves for certain accessories, shoes, handbags, necklaces -, these installations awaken this first floor of the The Richelieu wing, part of the palace-museum usually much less busy than the Denon wing, with its Mona Lisa and its Crown diamonds.
« The idea is to point out connections, echoes, and more generally to bring contemporary haute couture creations into dialogue with these collections which go from Byzantium to the Second Empire. »summarizes Olivier Gabet. This one, which lasted almost ten…
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