Tomorrow brings our customary roundup of new museum and gallery exhibitions in Moscow, but today I suggest you save a route through the fashion exhibitions now running in Paris

📌 Paul Poiret, la mode est une fête. Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) - until 11 January 2026. A major retrospective of a great couturier of the twentieth century, Paul Poiret, liberator of the female body and master of the fashion avant-garde. The exhibition shows not only his legendary silhouettes but also the stage designs, parties and illustrations that shaped the visual language of the age.

📌 Azzedine Alaïa / Thierry Mugler: Connivences artistiques. Fondation Azzedine Alaïa - until 31 August 2025. A dialogue between two landmark figures of contemporary fashion: the architectural purity of Alaïa meets the sculptural extravagance of Mugler. More than 200 exhibits reveal the designers' innovative approach to femininity and the silhouette.

📌 Rick Owens: Shock Retrospective. Palais Galliera (Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris) - until 4 January 2026. More than 100 silhouettes, archive materials and works of art. The immersive exhibition lays bare Owens's radical style and aesthetic underground.

📌 Louvre Couture: Art and Fashion – Statement Pieces. The Louvre - until 24 August 2025🖋. For the first time the Louvre devotes a separate exhibition to fashion: 70 garments and 30 accessories from Chanel, Balenciaga, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent and others who challenge the boundaries between art and fashion.

📌 Worth: The Birth of Haute Couture in Paris. Petit Palais - until 7 September 2025. A retrospective of the “father of haute couture”, Charles Frederick Worth, with exhibits from Parisian museum collections.

📌 Octogone: Chalisée Naamani — Clothing Images. Palais de Tokyo - until 7 September 2025. An installation on the dialogue between fashion, the body and sport.

📌 The Fabric of Enlightenment. Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau - until 26 October 2025. Eighteenth-century fashion: an age of change between luxury and simplicity.