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Dear visitors, 

After the success of "A History of Fashion", our second collections tour will open to the public in June 2023.

This next collections tour will be an opportunity for you to discover a new history of fashion, from the 18th century to the present day, through our exceptional collections presented in a new theme dedicated to the body in motion.

The link between fashion and sport will be the subject of the second display of this new collections tour, echoing the Olympic Games that will be held in Paris in 2024.

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Dress, Courrèges

  • Courrèges

  • gift of Madame Léon Gischia
  • Spring-Summer 1968
  • Organdy and cotton satin, underlay in polyamide jersey, satin stitch embroidery
  • GAL 1998.44.2
  • Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

André Courrèges (b. 1923) founded his couture house in 1961 and entered fashion history in 1965 with a fundamental redefinition of the female silhouette. The 'Courrèges bombshell', as the press of the time termed it, bore no relation to the past.

The couturier put knees on show, did away with the waist, hips and bosom, and dressed legs with pants.The Courrèges woman was a return to the codes of childhood, with no qualms about combining long white socks with flat shoes. This dress, worn by the wife of painter Léon Gischia and shown on model Penelope Tree in the April 1968 Vogue USA, used mockery as its aesthetic key. As short as a child's dress, it is decorated with a trompe l'oeil two-piece swimsuit, while its opaque organdy underlay is embroidered with blue Op Art circles.

 

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