until Sunday January 07 2018

Palais Galliera
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10 avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie
75116 Paris
France

This exhibition, “Fortuny, un Espagnol à Venise” (Fortuny, a Spaniard in Venice), closes the Palais Galliera’s Spanish Season, which opened with “Balenciaga, l’oeuvre au noir” (‘Balenciaga, working in black’) at the Musée Bourdelle, and was followed by “Costumes espagnols, entre ombre et lumière” (‘Spanish costumes: darkness and light”) at the Maison de Victor Hugo.

A museum in the heart of La Serenissima bears his name. He was a venetian by adoption, but spanish by birth, famous for his fine pleats… The man in question is Mariano Fortuny, and the Palais Galliera, City of Paris Fashion Museum, is devoting a retrospective to his work. With over a hundred pieces from the Galliera collection, Madrid’s fashion museum the Museo del Traje and the Museo Fortuny in Venice, the exhibition will reveal the full diversity of his inspiration.