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The Museum of Fashion on display

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Tue 10 Mar → Fri 01 May 2026
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Olivier Saillard

Location

Galerie Valois

Métro Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre

Directions

While performances and a living museum are invented at the Fondation Cartier, TheMuseum of Fashion on Display can be found in the antique wood-paneled exhibitions cases of the Galerie Valois, an arcade located near the Palais-Royal metro station.

Offering an overview of the practices governing clothing and fashion on display, each of these glass cases evokes the characteristics of a presentation doomed to silence and immobility.  

While the recreated gesture dominates in a living museum of fashion, here, the hieratic quality of the mannequins, the sartorial artifacts, and the aquarium-like display cases suggest the disappearance of fashion, victims of the ephemeral.

Exhibition partner

Olivier Saillard Spectacle 2026 1

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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