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Louvre Museum adds haute couture to high antiquity

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Jan 24, 2025 07:13 PM IST

FASHION-PARIS/LOUVRE (PIX, TV):Louvre Museum adds haute couture to high antiquity

PARIS, - The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, is for first time displaying haute couture gowns and accessories from fashion houses, including Chanel, Saint Laurent and Dior, next to decorative arts from Ancient Greece to France’s Second Empire.

Louvre Museum adds haute couture to high antiquity
Louvre Museum adds haute couture to high antiquity

"Paris is the capital of fashion – there is a very strong relationship between the fashion houses and Paris, and the Louvre is in the heart of Paris," Olivier Gabet, director of the museum’s decorative arts department, told Reuters on Friday at the opening of the couture exhibition.

Fashion houses have used the grounds of the Louvre for shows - but not the museum itself - and fashion designers, including Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy and Karl Lagerfeld, have long had an affinity for the museum and its collections.

But Gabet said the exhibition was "the first time the Louvre brings fashion inside the museum in this way".

A silk ball gown designed by John Galliano for Dior in 2006 sits in the centre of a room dedicated to Louis XIV, lined with ornate, gilded furniture and towering portraits of the Sun King.

In another room, Alexander McQueen's platform Armadillo shoes from 2011 are displayed in a case next to a 17th-century plate featuring pond life.

"The idea of this kind of exhibit is to say 'come to the Louvre, look at the collections differently,'" said Gabet.

Home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Louvre has requested urgent help from the French government to restore and renovate its ageing exhibition halls and better protect its countless works of art.

The couture exhibition runs through July 21.

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