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14 Jun

Palais Galliera Explores Bodies in Motion Ahead of Olympics

Palais Galliera Explores Bodies in Motion Ahead of Olympics
PARIS — With the 2024 Paris Olympics looming large on the horizon, the town’s fashion museums are warming up by highlighting the interplay between garments and sports. First out of the gate is the Palais Galliera museum, which explores the influence of physical activity and rise of recent sports on clothing in “La mode en mouvement” (or “Fashion in Motion”), an exhibition drawn from its everlasting collections. It should run until Sept. 7, 2025, within the museum’s underground Gabrielle Chanel Galleries, and is segmented into three parts to make sure the conservation of fragile garments, with the primary one running until March 15, 2024. While the upcoming “Fashion and Sport, From One Podium to the Other” exhibition, slated on the Arts Décoratifs from...
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12 Apr

Filip Ćustić’s recent show explores society on the verge

Filip Ćustić’s recent show explores society on the verge
The uneasy relationship between the body, mind, and technology takes centre stage on the artist’s first solo Tokyo exhibition Practically all technological progress comes with a price, and nowhere is that this more obvious, in 2023, than online. Face filters and digital avatars free us from the shackles of our worldly bodies; at the identical time, they cause widespread body dysmorphia and the eerie sense that we’re all turning into digital clones. Social media guarantees recent types of democracy and global consciousness; at the identical time, it polarises our discourse and obliterates our attention spans. Now anyone can turn out to be a star; now anyone can turn out to be a star. ...
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6 Apr

The Wardrobe Explores Possibilities for Fashion Archives at Secret Warehouse

The Wardrobe Explores Possibilities for Fashion Archives at Secret Warehouse
For fashion historian and exhibition curator, Julie Ann Clauss, the preservation of fashion archives goes well beyond the storing of seasonal items — it’s about taking them into the long run and keeping them relevant. Known for her experience archiving and curating for the Museum at FIT, Deitch Projects and other designer archives, with museum-level standards, Clauss was tapped by Tom Ford in 2008 to ascertain a comprehensive achievement of his work. It was then, Clauss told WWD, that she realized a resource that offered museum-quality fashion collection management and curational services was a necessity the industry was severely lacking. In 2011, Clauss launched The Wardrobe, a premier fashion archival consultancy and curation studio that gives museum-quality conservation and restoration. The Wardrobe’s...
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31 Jan

This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty

This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones discusses her debut book Easy Beauty – an eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals “I'm in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to 2 men, my friends, discuss whether my life is price living.” So begins Easy Beauty, the debut book and genre-bending memoir from philosophy professor and Pulitzer Prize-finalist author Chloé Cooper Jones. It’s not the primary time her body – its autonomy and inherent value – has been discussed in front of her. Not the primary time it’s been discussed as if separate from her, the person sat right there, listening as friends, colleagues or strangers evaluate her existence, dismissing...
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