With four hands, Azzedine Alaïa and Arthur Elgort shaped the 1980s.
At the very moment when the couturier saw his feminine ideal embodied in the street and by ever more numerous clients, the photographer, together, left the studios, opened the windows, seized movement and cities as a natural backdrop, and nine. Both have actively contributed to renewing a representation of woment that is now assertive, determined, independent.
The exhibition brings together around thirty photographs by Arthur Elgort with the original models by Azzedine Alaïa. Cult, timeless photographs, which have become essential to the couturier’s fashion iconography, as well as more confidential shots make up a unique exhibition in Paris. It consecrates photography and fashion whose revival Alaïa and Elgort orchestrated.

Curated by Carla Sozzani and Olivier Saillard.

Galerie Azzedine Alaïa
18 rue de la Verrerie
75004 Paris

Contacts: Sylvie Grumbach / Marie-Laure Girardon
P : +33 6 82 40 73 27
alaia@2e-bureau.com
fondationazzedinealaia.org

P : +33 1 42 33 93 18

"1997 Fashion Big Bang" is an exhibition focusing on the year 1997, a watershed year in the history of contemporary fashion. 1997 was both a high point of 1990s fashion and the gateway to the new millennium. It brought a flurry of collections, shows, new appointments, openings and events that defined the fashion scene as we know it today. Such was its impact that 1997 can be thought of as the launching pad for 21st century fashion. The chronological layout of the exhibition features over 50 silhouettes from the Palais Galliera collections, along with loans from museums and international collectors and fashion houses. And it also includes videos and some outstanding archive documents.

Curator:
Alexandre Samson, Head of collections, haute couture (after 1947) and contemporary creation departments, at the Palais Galliera, assisted by Louise Habert

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Photo: Comme des Garçons par Rei Kawakubo, collection « Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body », Prêt-à-porter Printemps-été 1997 @ Irving Penn / Mannequin Christina Krusse - © Condé Nast / The Irving Penn Foundation

Palais Galliera
10 Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, Paris 16e
75116 Paris

Philippe Starck invites the public of the Musée Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris to embark on an overground voyage, from Paris to Paris, the city to which he is anchored. This surprising journey, oscillating between the real and the imaginary, had never previously been attempted.

From one port of call to another, the “visitors-travellers-passengers” have a constantly renewed experience owing to an original scenography conceived with Philippe Starck, inviting you to cross the tourist, political and cultural places of Paris, from the Élysée Palace to the Bains-Douches via the Saint-Martin canal. This unprecedented project highlights the mystery of the capital: under his gaze, Paris thus becomes "pataphysical", a reference to this science of imaginary solutions.

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Carnavalet
23 Rue de Sévigné
75003 Paris
P : +33 (0)1 44 59 58 58

www.carnavalet.paris.fr

In 2018, the Fondation featured the “Jean-Michel Basquiat” exhibition. It continues its exploration of the work of the artist, revealing, this time, his collaboration with Andy Warhol.

Between 1984 and 1985, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) created around 160 paintings together in tandem, “à quatre mains”, including some of the largest works produced during their respective careers. Keith Haring (1958-1990), who witnessed their friendship and collaboration production, would go on to speak of a “conversation occurring through painting, instead of words,” and of two minds merging to create a “third distinctive and unique mind.”

“Basquiat x Warhol. Painting 4 hands” is the most important exhibition ever dedicated to this extraordinary body of work and will bring together more than three hundred works and documents including eighty canvases jointly signed by the two artists. Also featured will be individual works by each as well as a set of works by other major artists (Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf, Michael Halsband…) in order to evoke the energy of the New York downtown art scene of the 1980s.

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Photo: Jean-Michel Basquiat et Andy Warhol, 6,99, 1984 © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat Licensed by Artestar, New York © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Adagp, Paris 2022

Fondation Louis Vuitton
8 Av. du Mahatma Gandhi
75116 Paris

General Inquiries: P : +33 1 40 69 96 00
contact@fondationlouisvuitton.fr
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

Press Contact: fondationlouisvuitton@joonampartners.com

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs explores the relationship between the body and fashion with an exhibition on hair styles and body hair grooming. Des cheveux et des poils (Hair & Hairs) exhibition demonstrates how hairstyles and the grooming of human hair have contributed to the construction of appearances for centuries.

Hair is an essential aspect of one’s identity and has often been used as a means of expressing our adherence to a fashion, a conviction, or a protest while invoking much deeper meanings such as femininity, virility, and negligence, to name just a few. The exhibition explores through 600 works, from the 15th century to nowadays, the themes inherent in the history of hairstyles, but also the questions related to facial and bodily hair. The trades and skills of yesterday and today are highlighted with their iconic figures: Léonard Autier (favorite hairdresser of Marie-Antoinette), Monsieur Antoine, the Carita sisters, Alexandre de Paris, and more recently studio hairdressers. Great names in contemporary fashion such as Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela, or Josephus Thimister are present with their spectacular creations made from this unique material that is hair.

The exhibition is presented in the Christine & Stephen A. Schwarzman’s fashion galleries of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The scenography will be created by David Lebreton of the Designers Unit agency.

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Photo: Marisol Suarez, Braided wig. Katrin Backes

Les Arts Décoratifs
107 Rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
P : +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50

Ticketing: reservation@madparis.fr
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Basquiat Soundtrack is the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful relationship with music. A feast for the ears as well as the eyes, Basquiat Soundtrack presents a rich and heroic score to the meteoric output of a peerless artist, offering new insight into how his visual work was informed by music, from Beethoven to Madonna, zydeco to John Cage, Louis Armstrong to the Zulu Nation.

Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged as part of the multidisciplinary artist community of late-1970s New York, bursting onto the scene at the confluence of two surging musical movements: no wave and hip-hop. A poet, stylist, sculptor and, especially, musician before he became a painter, Basquiat was the unofficial leader of the band Gray, which shared stages with major no wave groups like DNA and The Lounge Lizards. As a burgeoning creator, he frequented the downtown clubs that were an enclave for a generation of punk-influenced artists who, between performance art and experimentation, sought to forge new practices and bring art back to life. At the same time, Basquiat was hit hard by the onslaught of hip-hop, a cultural revolution unfolding uptown, developing its own codes and approaches to not only music but also dance and visual arts. He became close to the hip-hop community, even teaming up with rapper and MC friends to produce a single called Beat Bop (1983), featuring one of the trailblazers in the genre, Rammellzee.

Curators: Vincent Bessières, Dieter Buchhart, Mary-Dailey Desmarais.

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Photo: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dog Bite - Ax to Grind, 1983, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

221 Avenue Jean-Jaurès (Paris, XIXe)
75019 Paris

Ticketing: P : +33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
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With over four hundred works, the exhibition traces the life and theatrical career of this “sacred monster”, as Jean Cocteau dubbed her. A legendary performer of the greatest roles from Racine, Shakespeare, Edmond Rostand and Alexandre Dumas fils, among others, Sarah Bernhardt went from triumph to triumph in theatres all over the world.

The exhibition evokes her greatest roles through the costumes she wore on stage, photographs, paintings, posters and other memorabilia. Her “golden voice” and her tall, slender figure held the public in thrall, as well as the artistic and literary world, who simply venerated her. She was the friend of painters such as Gustave Doré, Georges Clairin, Louise Abbéma, and Alphonse Mucha, but also of writers like Victor Hugo, Victorien Sardou and Sacha Guitry, as well as musicians and composers like Reynaldo Hahn. She was an artist herself, and an entire section of the exhibition focuses on this lesser-known aspect of her life.

Photographs, paintings and even a film reveal the private side of her art, but also the publicity she sought for her work as an artist. A number of objects that belonged to her also illustrate Sarah Bernhardt’s personal life and her taste for eccentricity: her various homes, her lavish, eclectic interiors and her wardrobe. Sarah Bernhardt can be regarded as a genuine star before her time, constantly on the look-out for new trends and using her image for her own publicity. The frenzy of popular emotion that greeted her death in 1923, at the age of 79, anticipated the cult following of the great film stars of the 20th century.

Head curator: Annick Lemoine, director of the Petit Palais
Curators: Cécilie Champy, director of the Musée Zadkine, Stéphanie Cantarutti, curator for 19th century paintings at the Petit Palais

Avenue Winston-Churchill
75008 Paris
P : +33 (0)1 53 43 40 00

Contact: P : + 33 (0)1 53 43 40 00
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In the Rotunda and Gallery 2.

This spring, Tacita Dean brings her sense of poetic atmosphere to the curves of the building’s architecture. Make way for geological time and dystopic landscapes, for glaciers inspired by Caspar David Friedrich’s Sea of Ice, which invites its viewers to drift away, for the choreographed flow of time and disorientation, for the sakura, the thousand-year-old cherry trees that have for centuries adorned themselves at the close of winter with their ephemeral blossoms, and for the trembling landscapes that register and record the seismic advent of new political boundaries within the folds of their topography. For Tacita Dean, the giants of nature express their paradoxical fragility through the obsolescence of the materials of which they are made: chalk, film, watercolour. Tacita Dean shows elements that are in the process of disappearing and about to become, a series of memento mori of the here and now that yield, before the storm, to a “nostalgia for the season that has just left us” (Ryoko Sekiguchi, Nagori. La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter (Paris, Gallimard, 2020) what the Japanese call nagori.

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Bourse de Commerce
2 Rue de Viarmes
75001 Paris

Contact: P : +33 (0)1 55 04 60 60
info.boursedecommerce@pinaultcollection.com
www.pinaultcollection.com

Special Partnership With The Museo Di Capodimonte
Reasserting the importance of collaborative efforts among European museums, the Musée du Louvre has formed a partnership of unprecedented scope with the Museo di Capodimonte for 2023.

The Museo Di Capodimonte
The royal palace (reggia in Italian), which once served as a hunting lodge for Naples’s Bourbon monarchs, is now one of the largest museums in Italy, as well as one of the most important picture galleries in Europe in terms of both number and quality of works. Capodimonte is one of the few museums in Italy whose collection covers all schools of Italian painting. It also houses the second largest department of drawings (after the Uffizi) and a remarkable collection of porcelain.

The exhibition
Approximately 60 major masterpieces from Capodimonte will be exhibited in three different places in the Louvre.
Salon Carré, Grande Galerie and Salle Rosa (Denon wing, Level 1)
Salle de la Chapelle (Sully wing, Level 1)
Salle de l’Horloge (Sully wing, Level 2)

Exhibition curators:
Sébastien Allard, director of the Department of Paintings, Musée du Louvre, and Sylvain Bellenger, director of the Museo di Capodimonte.

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Photo: Titien, Danaé, 1544-1545. Naples, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte

Louvre

75001 Paris

Contact: P : +33 (0)1 40 20 53 17
info@louvre.fr
www.louvre.fr/

"Fashion in motion" is a retrospective dedicated to sportswear, staged in the garden floor galleries.

This chronological exhibition, curated by Marie-Laure Gutton, head of the accessories collections, and assisted by Samy Jelil, featuring some 200 works, traces the history of fashion from the 18th century to the present day through the museum’s collections, while also developing a transversal theme on the body in movement. In resonance with the Olympic and Paralympic Games that are to be held in Paris in 2024, the Palais Galliera examines the part played by clothing in physical and sporting activities, its relationship to the body and to movement, and the social consequences of its development.

Garments designed for physical and sporting activities are presented alongside everyday clothing. This dialogue casts light on the idea of how sportswear became specialised, how women’s wear was adapted for physical activity at the end of the 19th century, the masculinisation of women’s clothing, and the adoption of sportswear as clothing for everyday life. The changing image of the body, particularly the athletic body, and the way it has been accentuated by clothing, is highlighted in order to show how the liberation of the body through physical activity has contributed to changing mentalities and beauty standards. Swimming costumes, cycling outfits, side-saddle habits, motoring coats and accessories, jogging suits, and sneakers all reflect the distinct silhouettes of three centuries of fashion history.

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Photo: Peter Knapp, Peter Knapp, Swimwear, for Elle, 1971. © Peter Knapp

Palais Galliera
10 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, Paris 16e
75116 Paris
P : +33 (0)1 56 52 86 00

Contact: www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr

Just Phriends is an auction curated in partnership with Sarah Andelman, featuring over 50 unique lots: a mix of rare and bespoke artworks, objects and exclusive collaborations, assembled from the orbit of Joopiter’s founder Pharrell.
Artists on display include Takashi Murakami, Kaws, Daniel Arsham, Michael Kagan, FriendswithYou, and brands like Chanel and Louis Vuitton.

Open for global bidding on joopiter.com from June 19 to 27, 2023, "Just Phriends" has also a special public preview in Paris June 20 to 24, during Paris Men's Fashion Week, accompanied by a Gift Shop pop-up with exclusive, limited edition items.

Photo: Takashi Murakami and Pharrell Williams, The Simple Things

8 Avenue Matignon
75008 Paris