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The Living Museum of Fashion, inaugural version

Inaugural performance by Olivier Saillard & guests

  • Events, Paris
  • Fri 06 Mar → Sat 07 Mar 2026, 21:00
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Le Musée Vivant de la Mode © Olivier Saillard Photo © Gabriele Rosati

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

2, place du Palais-Royal

75001 Paris

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Price

Full price : 15€ | Reduced price : 10€

Over the course of the inaugural weekend, The Living Museum of Fashion is presented in an expanded format, featuring special guests and partners.

In collectives, the live models combine speaking and performance at various locations throughout the foundation. One model revisits the spoken-word fashion shows without clothes dating from Olivier Saillard's early work. Elsewhere, a trio tries on garments approved and selected by the audience. Another group of models parade in black sheath dresses, donning Mallarmé's texts as if they were long lost garments.

While a lecture presents the foundations of this living performative museum, the models, as the live, breathing pedestals of historical narratives, move about in essential, poetic, and stylistic formats, ensuring that the clothes go far beyond the silence of display cases. 

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Olivier Saillard

Olivier Saillard is a graduate in art history, former director of the Palais Galliera – Paris Fashion Museum, currently director of the Alaïa Foundation and artistic, image and culture director for the J.M. Weston brand. Since then, alongside his work as a historian, he has pursued a poetic reflection presented in the form of performances, the most notable of which, Impossible Wardrobe with Tilda Swinton, inaugurated a ten-year cycle of collaboration. Similarly, Models never talk with a studio of famous models, established a new form in response to conventional fashion shows.

In 2018, he founded 'Moda Povera', a poetic, performative, and pedagogical clothing creation company based on the transformation of ordinary and modest garments, magnified by haute couture knowledge and techniques.

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