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1 Recent fashion exhibitions at the MAD include Fashion and Sport (September 2023–April 2024), Hair and Hairs (April 2023–September 2023), and Shocking! The Surrealist Worlds of Elsa Schiaparelli (July 2022–January 2023). Fashion features heavily in The Birth of Department Stores. Fashion, Design, Toys, Advertising. 1852-1925, on show from April through October 2024, and exhibitions dedicated to young fashion designers of ANDAM (Association nationale pour le développement des arts de la mode) and fashion design during the Roaring Twenties will open in late 2024.
2 In order, wall panel texts “Sensory Sea Life,” “Growth Systems,” “The Mythology of Fear,” “Cosmic Bloom,” “Skeletal Embodiment,” and “Water and Dreams.”
3 “Growth Systems” wall panel. In the original French: “Le corps devient le composant d’un tout, relié à sa physicalité mais aussi à son esprit et à son âme. Elle puise dans les singularités du vivant pour en extraire des écosystèmes, des processus de croissance, des interconnexions.”
4 In order, “Forces Behind the Forms” and “Water and Dreams” wall panels. In the original French: “L’infiniment petit s’est imposé pour lui révéler la beauté d’êtres invisibles et lui ouvrir la voie à des grammaires esthétiques et à des matérialités nouvelles.” “Bulles suspendues dans l’espace, éclaboussures transparentes, brume, vagues turquoise ou outremer, les œuvres aquatiques d’Iris van Herpen révèlent les mystères et les pouvoirs métamorphiques de l’eau qui se manifestent à travers tout un éventail de matériaux et techniques […].”
5 “Welcome to my atelier!” text by Iris van Herpen.
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Lacey Minot
Lacey Minot is a writer and art historian based in Paris. A graduate of Barnard College, New York and The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, she recently obtained her degree in museology from the École du Louver. She is interested in fashion theory and the role of fashion in the arts, and her work has featured in a variety of international publications. [email protected]