Musée Galliera presenting Balenciaga at Les Docks

During the long periode when Musee Galliera, the fashion museum in Paris, has been locked for renovation, the managemant has done their outmost to give the large fashion audience other possibilities to enjoy the enormouse collection of fashion items belonging to Musee Galliera.

By Tomas Bagackas

Right now two exhibitions, Cristóbal Balenciaga collector of fashions, and Comme des Garcons WHITE DREAMS, are being presented at LES DOCKS, where also other fashion activities has found their home, such as the school, Institut Francaise de la Mode. – IFM established in the same building at 34 Quai de Austerlitz. 75013 Paris, wonderfully situated on the Left side of the Seinen River.

It is understandable that the city of Paris is building up acitivities in this area, which is quite centrally located in Paris, with easy transport Metro no 14 to Gare de Lyon and other to Gare d´Austerlitz, and only a few minutes walk by the left River side.

As Kulturkompasset last summer visited the new Balenciaga museum, shortly after the opening 6th of June 2011 of the new in the home city of Cristóbal Balenciaga, – Getaria, close to San Sebastian Northern Spain last year,  it was with great interest we enjoyed this collection of outfits, and furthermore parts national Spanish costumes who has been giving Balenciaga inspiration and locale colorit from his own home area to his outfits
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Balenciaga.

As a tribute to the master of fashion (1895-1972) and to mark the fortieth anniversary of his death, Galliera, with the support of the Maison Balenciaga, unveils a fashion collection assembled with passion by the couturier and generously donated to the museum by his family.

Stays and casaquins, satin torero costumes, velvet boleros, capes and mantelets, bustle dresses, cashmere stoles, lace mantillas, samples of embroidery and trimming, etc. All these items, many lavish, some plainffigure in jumbled profusion in this collection spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centurie.

At Les Docks, more than seventy costumes and items of clothing are displayed alongside so me forty haute couture coats and dresses designed by Balenciaga from 1937 to 1968, taken from the Galliera’s collections or on loan fromMaison Balenciaga. Accessories, photographs and sketches as well as books on art and costumes complete this exhibit which testifies in equal measure to the designer’s passion for history and his consummate skillat a trade first learnt at his mother’s knee.

The scenography, displays these treasures of inspiration and of high archive value set in the reserve collection of a fashion museum with long rows of metal movable shelving.

For the visitor, this is an invitation to enter Cristóbal Balenciaga’s museum of the imagination: the traditional Spain of folklore, the black and the dark colours, the strict religious and ceremonial robes, the great masters of Spanish painting, and to share the creative intimacy of the “Couturier of couturiers”.

 

There is a publication to accompany this exhibition

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Curator: Olivier Saillard, Director of the Galliera Museum.

Please enjoy our reportage from The Balenciaga Museum, Getaria, Spain at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2011/08/cristobal-balenciaga-museum-getaria/

The books:

Balenciaga and Spain at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2011/12/balenciaga-and-spain/

Balenciaga Memoirs at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2012/02/balenciaga-memoirs/

Furthermore Balenciaga models at the exhibition Haute Couture at Versailles, (Grand Trianon) summer 2011 at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2011/09/haute-couture-at-versailles/

To visit the home page of Institut Francais de la Mode:

http://www.ifm-paris.com/asp/en2/0_home.asp

 

 

 

 

 

IFM established in the same building at 34 Quai de Austerlitz. 75013 Paris, wonderfully situated on the Left side of the Seinen River.

It is understandable that the city of Paris is building up acitivities in this area, which is quite centrally located in Paris, with easy transport Metro no 14 to Gare de Lyon and other to Gare d´Austerlitz, and only a few minutes walk by the left River side.

As Kulturkompasset last summer visited the new Balenciaga museum, shortly after the opening 6th of June 2011 of the new in the home city of Cristóbal Balenciaga, – Getaria, close to San Sebastian Northern Spain last year,  it was with great interest we enjoyed this collection of outfits, and furthermore parts national Spanish costumes who has been giving Balenciaga inspiration and locale colorit from his own home area to his outfits.

Balenciaga.

As a tribute to the master of fashion (1895-1972) and to mark the fortieth anniversary of his death, Galliera, with the support of the Maison Balenciaga, unveils a fashion collection assembled with passion by the couturier and generously donated to the museum by his family.

Stays and casaquins, satin toreadoro costumes, velvet boleros, capes and mantelets, bustle dresses, cashmere stoles, lace mantillas, samples of embroidery and trimming, etc. All these items, many lavish, some plainffigure in jumbled profusion in this collection spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centurie.

At the exhibition at Les Docks, Paris, more than seventy costumes and items of clothing are displayed alongside so me forty haute couture coats and dresses designed by Balenciaga from 1937 to 1968, taken from the Galliera’s collections or on loan fromMaison Balenciaga. Accessories, photographs and sketches as well as books on art and costumes complete this exhibit which testifies in equal measure to the designer’s passion for history and his consummate skillat a trade first learnt at his mother’s knee.

The scenography, displays these treasures of inspiration and of high archive value set in the reserve collection of a fashion museum with long rows of metal movable shelving.

For the visitor, this is an invitation to enter Cristóbal Balenciaga’s museum of the imagination: the traditional Spain of folklore, the black and the dark colours, the strict religious and ceremonial robes, the great masters of Spanish painting, and to share the creative intimacy of the “Couturier of couturiers”.

 

There is a publication to accompany this exhibition.

 Curator: Olivier Saillard, Director of the Galliera Museum.

 

Please enjoy our reportage from The Balenciaga Museum, Getaria, Spain at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2011/08/cristobal-balenciaga-museum-getaria/

The book Balenciaga and Spain at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2011/12/balenciaga-and-spain/

Balenciaga Memoirs at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2012/02/balenciaga-memoirs/

Furthermore Balenciaga models at the exhibition Haute Couture at Versailles, summer 2011 at: http://www.kulturkompasset.com/2011/09/haute-couture-at-versailles/

 

To visit the home page of Institut Francais de la Mode.:

http://www.ifm-paris.com/asp/en2/0_home.asp