Fashion exhibitions until January 2026, from Paul Poiret and Worth to Rick Owens and the Louvre

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.

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