Bild: Georges Lepape —Les choses de Paul Poiret vues par Georges Lepape, Paris, Paul Poiret, 1911, Copy no. 176/300, Stencil-colored phototype © Les Arts Décoratifs
Auch in diesem Jahr gibt es wieder eine Fülle inspirierender Modeausstellungen, die das Herz jedes Modeinteressierten höher schlagen lassen. Allein in Paris finden fünf davon statt. Zwei dieser beeindruckenden Ausstellungen enden bereits im Sommer, weshalb Du Dich beeilen solltest.
Die Ausstellung „Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show” im Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein wirft einen Blick hinter die Kulissen und verfolgt die faszinierende Entwicklung der Modenschau. Sie zeigt die Entwicklung von den diskreten Anfängen in den Salons der Couturiers um 1900 bis hin zu den spektakulären Präsentationen des 21. Jahrhunderts.
Wenn du nach Rotterdam reist, solltest du dir unbedingt die großartige Schau von Iris van Herpen ansehen. Sie ist ein absolutes Muss für alle, die die Symbiose von modernster Technologie und traditionellem Handwerk schätzen und die Ausstellung in Paris verpasst haben.
Nicht zu vergessen ist die Hommage an Christian Lacroix im Centre National du Costume de la Scène in Moulins. Seine Arbeiten für Theater, Oper und Film zeigen eindrucksvoll, wie Mode Geschichten erzählt und Emotionen weckt.
Außerdem gibt es den Marie-Antoinette-Stil in London zu sehen und Giorgio Armani blickt auf 20 Jahre seines Modeschaffens zurück.
Aber lest selbst:
Golden Thread - The art of dressing from north Africa to the far east
Museé du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris
Noch bis 06.07.2025
From the Maghreb to Japan, a fabulous journey through time and space, discovering the mysterious and fascinating origins of gold and its marriage with the textile arts.
The world’s most precious and noble metal, an object of envy, a symbol of wealth and splendour, a sign of elegance and refinement… Discovered nearly 7,000 years ago, gold has never ceased to fascinate mankind. The ultimate material for all kinds of expertise, experimentation and tradition, it has been used since antiquity to make jewellery, ornaments and weapons. As early as the fifth millennium B.C., it was used to embellish the first luxury fabrics for men of power. Over the centuries that followed, skilled weavers and craftsmen Roman, Byzantine, Chinese, Persian and then Muslim used the most ingenious techniques to create veritable fabrics of art where silk or linen fibres were intertwined with gold threads and strips.
From the first ornaments sewn onto the garments of the deceased to the flamboyant dresses of contemporary Chinese artist Guo Pei that are found throughout the exhibition, from the gold-woven silks of the Indian and Indonesian worlds to the glittering kimonos of the Edo era, this exhibition reveals the age-old history of gold in the textile arts. In a dialogue combining scientific discoveries and artistic perspectives, it unveils the dazzling beauty, diversity, richness and the technical nature of the outfits of a vast region from the Maghreb to Japan, including the countries of the Middle East, India, and China.
Quelle: Museé du Quai Branly, Paris, Zugriff am 23.05.2025, https://www.quaibranly.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/at-the-museum/exhibitions/event-details/e/au-fil-de-lor
LOUVRE COUTURE - Art and Fashion: Statement Piece
Museé du Louvre, Paris
Verlängert bis 21.08.2025
Although we have known since the days of Paul Cézanne that ‘the Louvre is the book from which we learn to read’, this inexhaustible wellspring of inspiration has also nourished one of contemporary art’s liveliest domains: the world of fashion. More and more, research and monographs dedicated to the greats of fashion have boldly begun to trace aesthetic family trees, establishing these figures in a historical and artistic context. The pattern is not merely one of disruptions, with various degrees of radical innovation, or of seasonal changes, but also one of echoes and evocations. The threads weaving their way between the work of great fashion figures and the world of art are almost endless, and the history of art as expressed by the Musée du Louvre, in the depth of its collections and in the ways it reflects the tastes of days gone by, is an equally vast terrain of influences and sources.
In consideration of the Louvre’s encyclopaedic immensity, 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, where textiles are omnipresent – though generally in tapestries and other décor items rather than in articles of clothing.
Over a nearly 9,000-square-metre space, 65 designs are displayed, along with a number of accessories, newly illuminating the close historical dialogue that continues to take place between the world of fashion and the department’s greatest masterpieces, from Byzantium to the Second Empire. Each of these garments and accessories is on special loan from the most iconic fashion houses, both long-standing and recent, in Paris and throughout the world.
The pieces will not be displayed aimlessly throughout the Department of Decorative Arts, but rather will serve as an occasion to highlight existing parallels: the department owes part of its collection to the generosity of great fashion figures, from Jacques Doucet to Madame Carven. These countless connections embrace common methodological ground in the fields of art history and fashion: knowledge of ancestral techniques, visual culture and the subtle interplay of references, from the catalogue raisonné of the museum to the moodboard of the fashion world. ‘Louvre Couture’ offers a new perspective on decorative arts through the prism of contemporary fashion design.
Quelle: Museé Louvre, Paris, Zugriff am 23.05.2025, https://www.louvre.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/louvre-couture
Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast
Musée des Arts Décoratif, Paris
25.06.2025 bis 11.01.2026
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents the first monograph dedicated to Paul Poiret (1879-1944), an emblematic figure of Parisian haute couture at the beginning of the 20th century. Known for freeing women from corsets by introducing flowing silhouettes and vibrant colors to his designs, Poiret revolutionized fashion history.
The exhibition Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast is an immersion into his creative universe, exploring his boldness and artistic power through fashion, decorative arts, perfumery, parties, and even gastronomy, in the bubbling cultural context of the early 20th century. Highlighting the lasting influence of his work on contemporary stylists, the exhibition offers visitors an engaging experience, with a selection of works, documents and testimonials.
Quelle: Museé des Arts e Decoratifs, Paris, Zugriff am 04.05.2025, https://madparis.fr/Paul-Poiret-Fashion-is-a-Feast
Rick Owens - Temple of Love
Palais Galliera, Paris
28.06.2025 bis 04.01.2026
The Palais Galliera is holding the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to the work of avant-garde fashion designer Rick Owens. It features collections from his early beginnings in Los Angeles through to his most recent. With a fascination for spiritual ritual, his creations draw on a wide range of references, from Joris-Karl Huysmans to modern and contemporary art, as well as the great Hollywood films of the early 20th century. Rick Owens himself is the exhibition’s artistic director and he has worked with the curation of the Palais Galliera to create an exhibition trail that extends to the façade of the museum as well as its garden.
Quelle: Palais Galliera, Paris, Zugriff am 04.05.2025, https://www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/expositions/rick-owens-temple-love
Worth - Inventing haute couture
Petit Palais, Paris
07.05 2025 bis 07.09.2025
For the first time, the Palais Galliera is joining forces with the Petit Palais to present an exceptional exhibition dedicated to the House of Worth.
Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895), born in England, was a key figure in the history of fashion and the founder of a fashion house that became the epitome of Parisian luxury. At the origin of haute couture, Worth founded his eponymous house at 7 rue de la Paix, whose history spans four generations and almost a century.
Spread over 1100 m2 in the grand galleries of the Petit Palais, this retrospective brings together more than 400 works – clothing, objects and accessories, paintings and graphics – to create a vast fresco of the creations of the House of Worth, as well as the protagonists who have written its history. It promises to be an exceptional exhibition, given the fragility of the pieces on display, the number of silhouettes (almost 80) and the way in which a world in the making and its legacy are portrayed, based on extensive documentation.
From the Second Empire to the Roaring Twenties, a page of history is being written: that of the invention of the figure of the great couturier and of the mechanisms for creating and marketing fashion that are still in force and whose foundations were laid by Worth at the end of the 19th century.
Quelle: Petit Palais, Paris, Zugriff am 04.05.2025, https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/expositions/worth-0
Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show
18.10.2025 – 15.02.2026
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
Modenschauen sind die magischen Momente der Modeindustrie – sie sind Ritual und Traummaschine, kommerziell und poetisch zugleich. Ihre Bilder verbreiten sich in Echtzeit um den Globus und prägen unser kulturelles Gedächtnis. Bühnenbild, Performance, Kleidung, Licht und Ton verbinden sich in ihnen zu einem temporären Gesamtkunstwerk. Die Ausstellung »Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show« wirft einen Blick hinter die Kulissen und verfolgt die faszinierende Entwicklung der Modenschau: Von den diskreten Anfängen in den Salons der Couturiers um 1900 bis hin zu den spektakulären Präsentationen des 21. Jahrhunderts; von Haute Couture zu Prêt-à-Porter; von der Ära der Supermodels zur Feier von Diversität; von der klassischen Laufsteg-Fotografie bis zur virtuellen Modenschau. Mit Film- und Fotoaufnahmen, originalen Kollektionsteilen, Einladungen und Bühnenrequisiten lässt die Ausstellung bahnbrechende Modenschauen wiederaufleben – von Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Chanel, Comme des Garçons, Dior, Gucci, Helmut Lang, Hussein Chalayan, Martin Margiela, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent und vielen anderen.
Quelle: Vitra Design Museum, Zugriff am 04.05.2025, https://www.design-museum.de/de/ausstellungen/kommende-ausstellungen
Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses
27.09.2025 bis 02.03.2026
Kunsthalle, Rotterdam, Niederlande
Lest dazu auch den Blogbeitrag https://bellaleyk.com/mode-im-museum/
Christian Lacroix en scène
CNCS, Moulins
05.04.2025 bis 04.01.2026
This landmark exhibition, titled Christian Lacroix on Stage, offers an immersive journey into the fascinating world of Christian Lacroix, whose creations continue to captivate audiences around the globe. A visionary artist renowned for his flamboyant and baroque style, Lacroix has devoted himself in recent years to designing costumes for theatre, opera, and dance.
The exhibition features 150 costumes from productions staged between 2007 and 2024, guiding visitors through a journey that is both chronological and thematic, revealing the designer’s inspirations and personal tastes. His work, often drawing on reinterpretations of the 18th and 19th centuries, presents a rich and imaginative retelling of fashion history—filtered through the hand and eye of a true couturier. Each costume tells its own story, balancing tradition and innovation with sumptuous fabrics and an extraordinary attention to detail.
Quelle: Centre National du costume et de la scéne, Moulins, Zugriff am 23.05.2025, https://cncs.fr/a-visiter/christian-lacroix-en-scene/
Giorgio Armani Privé 2005–2025 - Twenty Years of Haute Couture
21.05. bis 28.12.2025
Armani / Silos, Mailand
The exhibition Giorgio Armani Privé 2005-2025, Twenty Years of Haute Couture opens at Armani/Silos: a journey curated by Giorgio Armani himself through two decades of Haute Couture shaped by an unmistakable style. The exhibition explores the themes of a vision in which pure form and precious fabrics celebrate beauty in a tale told in the present. Because, when they are authentic, fashion creations are timeless.
Presented for the first time in 2005 in Paris, the capital of Haute Couture, the Giorgio Armani Privé collection stems from a vision of modern creativity, expressed in refined lines, precious materials and techniques, and jewel-like embroideries. It immediately emerged as a new expression of Armani style, both complementary to and distinct from prêt-à-porter, yet unified by the pursuit of a linear, elegant, and rarefied signature aesthetic.
Quelle: Armani Silos, Zugriff am 23.05.2025, https://www.armanisilos.com/exhibition/armani-prive-2005-2025/
Marie Antoinette Style
V&A South Kensington, London
Ab dem 20.09.2025
A complex fashion icon, Marie Antoinette’s timeless appeal is defined by her style, youth and notoriety. Explore the lasting influence of the most fashionable (and ill-fated) queen in history – with over 250 years of design, fashion, film and art.
Quelle: V&A South Kensington, London, Zugriff am 23.05.2025, https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/marie-antoinette?srsltid=AfmBOorEzlkuxYgrGhudyaloKXCXQIpYciWTH8eMZyRT0ftQyKPhhpZr