ABOUT OUR COLLECTIONS

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.

Ensemble, Walter Van Beirendonck

COAT, BONNET, TOP, LEGGINGS AND PAIR OF MOON BOOTS

Walter Van Beirendonck
Label on the woven cloth coat, inside middle back neckline, red on white: "Walter Van Beirendonck"
Ready-to-wear, fall-winter 2019-20, "WoW" collection
Purple brushed wool. Parma polyester faux fur. Beige marbled horn buttons. Gold and white changing twill lining. Knit 80% polyamide and 20% elastane grey anthracite printed in yellow, sky blue, orange, bottle green and candy pink. Polyester quilted fabric with pale yellow, water green and bottle green stripes, purple. Silver plated metal. Yellow and purple cords. Purple faux leather. Beige rubber. Black plastic.
GAL2020.2.53.1-6
Acquisition, Vogue Paris Foundation 2019
Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

Flemish fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck (1957-present) is one of the '6 of Antwerp', alongside Dries Van Noten, Marina Yee, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk Van Saene and Ann Demeulemeester. Graduates of the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts between 1980 and 1982, they chose to show their collections together in London from then on, before dissociating themselves around 1989.

Mottled, playful, political, sometimes outraged, Walter Van Beirendonck's style differs from that of his more sober-looking colleagues. His collections question gender, society, and the canons of beauty while playing with the structure of classic clothing, which he deforms with fantasy and provocation.

But above all, Walter Van Beirendonck is a major figure in the history of men's fashion, whose wardrobe he renews, breaks the austere codes and brightens up the creative aridity.

The autumn-winter 2019-20 "WoW" collection represents a strong comeback for the designer. Anonymous, a majority of these silhouettes have their faces covered by a multicoloured mask inspired by Mexican wrestlers. Van Beirendonck had already used them for his autumn-winter 1995-96 fashion show, the images of which toured the world. It is worn with a cyclist's knitted suit and a heavy, broad pilgrim coat in lilac faux fur. At the feet, real Moon ski boots are made in collaboration with the eponymous brand that created them in the 1970s.

Notice's author : Alexandre Samson