The Grand Palais in Paris has reopened with a dazzling fashion exhibition inspired by Italian culture. Dolce & Gabbana's 'Alta Moda' collection takes center stage, exploring themes from grand opera to the humble sewing atelier. This Parisian exhibition marks the beginning of a season dedicated to art and fashion in French museums, culminating in 2025.
Europe’s most spectacular art venue, the Grand Palais, just reopened. Freshly renovated, with an iron and glass roof sparkling, it kicks off the year with an extravaganza on Paris’s favourite subject: fashion. The story of how Italian culture — Murano glass, Byzantine mosaics, Renaissance sculpture, baroque decoration — inspires Dolce & Gabbana ’s “Alta Moda” collections unfolds in immersive mise-en-scènes from grand opera and Visconti’s The Leopard to the humble sewing atelier.
From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce & Gabbana was a sellout at its launch in Milan last spring; this is the second iteration. In Paris, the show inaugurates a catwalk season of art and fashion across French museums — a glittery theme for 2025. The mighty Louvre ventures into the field for the first time with Fashion (January 24-July 21), juxtaposing haute couture with the classical and antique. Musée du Quai Branly shows oriental textiles in Along the Gold Thread (February 11-July 6). Toulouse’s Fondation Bemberg explores Renaissance jewellery, as objects and in portraits, and its symbolic uses, in All That Glitters (April 4-July 27). Most intriguing is the Louvre-Lens’ Dressing as an Artist (March 26-May 25), tracing the role of costume in painting: Rembrandt’s turbans, Vigée Le Brun’s shawls, the dressing gown Rodin gave “Balzac”, Sonia Delaunay’s “simultaneous dress”, Andy Warhol’s wigs. JW Brazil’s modernism, fusing European avant-garde ideas with inspiration from indigenous culture and landscapes — tropical rainforests, Copacabana beach — is exuberant, bright, optimistic and a tonic for wintry grey London. It’s a shining moment for Brazilian art across Europe: curator Adriano Pedrosa compellingly brought 20th-century painters from his native country to wide audiences in the 2024 Venice biennale, including several here — Anita Malfatti’s expressionist portraits, Alfredo Volpi’s geometric abstractions, Tarsila do Amaral’s flamboyant, fantastical landscape
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