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97 2016 MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS Modem Europe Spring-Summer 2017 Edition dedicated to Musée des Arts Décoratifs Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts), a museum of the decorative arts and design, also hosts exhibitions of fashion, advertising and graphic art. The museum is known as the Pavillon de Marsan and located in the Palais du Louvre’s western wing. Musée des Arts Décoratifs opened his doors in 1986 on the initiative of Pierre Bergé and the French textile industry with the support of the culture minister of that time, Jack Lang. Its collection was founded much earlier, in 1905, by the members of the Union des Arts Décoratifs. The architect was Gaston Redon . It houses and displays furniture, interior design, porcelain, altar pieces, religious paintings, objets d’arts, tapestries, wallpaper, ceramics and glassware, plus toys from the Middle Ages to the modernity of our time. In 2016 the Museum celebrated the 30th anniversary with the exhibition “The Fashion Forward, Three Centuries of Fashion” . Composed in 3000 pieces, selected from a collection constantly enriched by donations and acquisitions, the exhibi- tion was conceived as an ideal museum of fashion, featuring the finest examples of three centuries of creation habitually illustrated in reference books. It provided a fascinating new insight into fashion’s evolution via its designers, clients and periods. Fashion is even more fascinating when it is not self-gene- rating but dialogues with the arts of its time, as did great figures of Couture such as Paul Poiret, Charles-Frederick Worth, Jacques Doucet, Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet, Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent.