Louvre Couture | Paris Exhibit

What is Louvre Couture? 

From now until July 21, 2025, Louvre museum is featuring a fashionable exhibition called Louvre Couture, where different rooms showcase beautiful silhouettes designed by the world’s greatest fashion houses like: Chanel, Dior, Alexander McQueen, Versace, Yes Saint Laurent and so much more. There are 65 pieces from 45 fashion houses displayed throughout 9,000 square meters of space that covers rooms from the Byzantium to the Second Empire.

I was quite surprised to know that this is Louvre’s first ever fashion exhibition in its 231-year history. The exhibition opens with a dramatic Yohji Yamamoto, and here are some notable pieces.

 

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The gorgeous Christian Dior by John Galliano was from Spring/Summer 2005 haute couture collection that was inspired by the film Sissi – The Young Empress. The bonded black velvet by Demna at Balenciaga from Spring/Summer 2020 was brilliantly, strikingly constructed. The plant motif by Versace from Spring/Summer 2018 parallels the wall hanging inside Louis XVIII’s bedroom. Givenchy’s ensemble features large collars that recall Napoleon’s uniforms. While the geometric patterns on this beautiful dress by the House of Fendi references Rome’s Renaissance palaces. Yves Saint Laurent’s wedding dress from Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1997 takes the viewers back to 18th-century French dresses and impeccably blends into the background color and the decor.

For fashion lovers, this is one exhibition not to be missed. The amalgam of style, art and history is the reason why my love for Paris never seems to fade.