FASHION ON THE MOVE #3
Skater outfit, attributed to Elsa Schiaparelli, 1930's - Azzedine Alaïa Foundation Collection © Gautier Deblonde / Palais Galliera / Paris Musées
Featuring over 180 new items, the third and final part of Fashion on the move exhibition retraces the history of fashion from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the way in which fashion has adapted to the body in movement. The focus of this installation is winter sports.
Garments designed for physical activity and sport through the ages are compared with clothes that people wore in everyday life. It is a dialogue that takes in the concept of specialised sportswear, from the adaptation of women's outfits for sporting activities in the late 19th century to the masculinisation of women's clothing and the introduction of sportswear in the modern wardrobe.
A large section of this last instalment of the exhibition is devoted to winter sports, tracing the emergence of high-altitude resorts and the development of new winter sports such as skiing, tobogganing, ice hockey, ice skating and sledding, as well as the gradual emergence of specially adapted outfits and accessories from specialist equipment manufacturers (including Rossignol, Tunmer and Mavest), fashion houses (including Hermès, Jean Patou and Madeline de Rauch) as well as collaborations between the two.
The exhibition has benefited from exceptional loans from CHANEL, the Musée National du Sport (Nice), the Bibliothèque Forney, the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, the Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris, the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa, the Émile Hermès collection, Patrimoine Hermès, the Balenciaga Archives, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Fusalp and Le Coq Sportif.