FASHION ON THE MOVE
Comme des Garçons, beach dress, spring-summer 1996 - Azzedine Alaïa Foundation Collection © Gautier Deblonde / Palais Galliera / Paris Musées
Fashion on the Move exhibition explore the role of special clothing in physical and sports activities as well as the sociological factors reflected in its development. Garments designed for sports and physical activities such as horseriding, tennis, golf and bicycling, are compared with clothes that were worn about town. This second exhibition provides for a better understanding of the gradual specialisation of sports garments and the arrival of sportswear in people's ordinary everyday wardrobe.
For Fashion on the Move #2, the museum has benefited from exceptional loans from the Musée National du Sport (Nice), the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa, the Bibliothèque Forney (Paris), the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, the Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris, Patrimoine de CHANEL, the Émile Hermès collection and Maison Yohji Yamamoto.
These guest items add perspective to the Palais Galliera pieces and the way they reflect attitudes through the ages to physical exercise and sports, whether as leisure activities or in competition.