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‘Louvre Couture’ 

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The Louvre Museum opens an extensive fashion exhibition this month. It will run from 24 January until 21 July, presenting the work of 45 designers and fashion maisons.

Louvre already has hosted fashion shows by different Houses and time to time celebrates iconic designers (like ‘Yves Saint Laurent at the Louvre‘ in 2022) but Louvre Couture is the first big, thematic fashion exhibition at the museum.

The nearly 9,000-square-metre space will feature looks and accessories from Chanel, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Jean-Paul Gaultier and many more. The presentation aims to offer a new perspective on decorative arts through the prism of contemporary fashion design, with the help of archival pieces and decorative art objects from the Louvre’s permanent collection – all curated by Olivier Gabet, the museum’s senior heritage curator.

As the museum states, ‘(…) this exhibition follows a methodological approach geared towards exploring the history of decorative styles, art professions and ornamentation through the galleries of the Department of Decorative Arts (…)’.

Louvre will also host a gala fundraising dinner, Grand Dîner du Louvre, on 4 March, in partnership with Visa Infinite.

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