Far from the catwalks, far from the heart? Not really. While Fashion Weeks around the world have struggled to rebuild since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, the fashion industry and its creators are making a symbolic breakthrough in the museums of France and Navarre at the start of the school year.
Fabrics, photography, exceptional dresses. This season, some famous names in the field, like the former model Sarah Moon or the famous London punk designer Vivienne Westwood, are in the spotlight.
The HuffPost invites you to discover below a selection of five exhibitions dedicated to fashion, starting from this September.
1. Vivienne Westwood – Art, Fashion and Subversion
British designer Vivienne Westwood has been daring for the past fifty years. On the occasion of this first exhibition in France dedicated to Jean-Paul Gaultier’s great friend, the Lyon Museum of Tissues invites visitors to discover nearly 200 pieces of the latter.
The idea? To portray in an original way the trajectory of this nonconformist character, known for his long-standing environmental activism and his interpretation of the codes of British culture.
At the Musée des Tissus de Lyon, from September 10 to January 17, 2021.
2. Sarah Moon – PastPresent
Mirages, darkness and transparency. Famous model from the beginning of the 1960s under the name of Marielle Hadengue, Sarah Moon very quickly made a name for herself in the world of photography. The fluidity of looks that she captures sets her apart, especially in a field still dominated by men.
The exhibition dedicated to her at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, organized with her, offers an unfolding “against all chronology” to cross eras and subjects in order to show the porosity of the environment to which she has devoted her work. , the fashion.
At the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, from September 18 to January 10, 2021.
