Fashion on the Move #3 | Palais Galliera | Musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris

Fashion on the Move #3

COLLECTIONS EXHIBITION I GARDEN FLOOR

From 8 February to 12 October 2025

From 8 February to 12 October 2025, the Palais Galliera is presenting the third and final part of its collections exhibition Fashion on the Move. With more than 180 new items from the museum's collections on display, the 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.

Swimming costumes, cycling outfits and riding habits, motoring coats and accessories, tennis wear and sneakers are just some of the silhouettes used to illustrate three centuries of fashion history. Fashion on the Move #3 is more than just a chronological review of the history of clothing; it offers insights into how the liberation of the body led to changes in attitudes and standards of beauty.

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. This section is also an opportunity to discover the museum's extensive collection of down jackets, ski suits, stirrup ski pants and knitted accessories.

 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. These guest items bring added perspective to the Palais Galliera's own pieces that bear witness to exercise and sports activities through the ages, whether competitive or for leisure.

 

AN EXHIBITION IN 3 INSTALMENTS

Fashion on the Move #1 : 16 June 2023 – 15 March 2024

Fashion on the Move #2 : 26 April 2024 – 5 January 2025

Fashion on the Move #3 : 8 February – 12 October 2025

CURATORS

General curator
Miren Arzalluz, director of the Palais Galliera

Scientific curator
Marie-Laure Gutton, head of the Accessories Collections and all the curators, assisted by Samy Jelil

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Visitor information

Price:

. Solo ticket 'Fashion on the Move #2': 14€ (full price) - 12€ (reduced rate), admission free for under 18s

. Ticket including temporary exhibition: 15€ (full price) - 13€ (reduced rate), admission free for under 18s

→ To book your ticket: www.billetterie-parismusees.paris.fr

Accessibility's exhibition:

- Visitors with a disability
- Deaf and hearing impaired
- Visually impaired/handicaped
- People experiencing mental disability
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Information:

Palais Galliera, Paris Fashion museum
10, Avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie, 75116 Paris

Getting there
. By metro: line 9, Iéna or Alma-Marceau
. By RER: line C, Pont de l’Alma

Opening times
. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m - 6 p.m

. Open late on Fridays until 9 p.m

. The museum is closed ons Mondays, on 1st May, 25 December and 1st January.

AROUND THE EXHIBITION

. Visitor's App: Palais Galliera app available free of charge on all smartphone and tablet stores
→ To learn more CLICK HERE 

. Publication: 'Paris, Mode, Sports' (in French and English), Editions Paris Musées. Edited and written by Miren Arzalluz, Pascale Gorguet Ballesteros, Marie-Laure Gutton and François Thomazeau. With essays by Samy Jelil and Nathan Daugé-Theil. 160 pages, 120 illustrations, 24x28 cm. Price inc. VAT: 25€. Publication date: 18 June 2024.