The time has come to the middle of the 20th century, when the shadow of war will be lifted, and the French fashion industry will usher in a new post-war dawn. In 1947, Christian Dior, The founder of the classic fashion house, unveiled his first spring/summer Haute Couture collection, "The New Look," to shake off the wartime doldrums, It has left an indelible mark on fashion history. Haute couture is a symbol of the high-end craft industry in Paris, from high-grade fabrics, ingenious tailoring, to meticulous sewing according to the customer's body, the birth of countless exquisite and delicate clothes, and behind these haute couture can not be separated from excellent fashion brands. Examples include Dior, Chanel, Balenciaga, Balmain and Yves Saint Laurent.
Marcello Dolmoy's summer Gauding of 1948
One of Christian Dior's autumn/winter haute couture collections in 1952 was an evening gown named Palmyre, which is now one of the fashion museum's prized collections. The evening gown was made of cellulose satin with gold and silver threads embroidered with pearls, sequins and crystals. The floral patterns in different styles were illustrated in just the right shades of blue -- sky blue, smoky gray and ice. The overlapping palm leaves highlighted Dior's classical charm and luxurious charm.
Palmyra Evening dress
Delicate embroidery on evening gowns
Starting in the summer of 2021, these historic garments are on display in France as a permanent exhibition, taking visitors on an unprecedented tour of the development and evolution of fashion over three centuries, tracing the history of the collections of the Paris Fashion Museum. It is worth mentioning that the Fashion Museum also has a storage and restoration studio with an area of more than 6,300 square meters for the storage, cleaning, restoration and reinforcement of the exhibition fashion.
As a gorgeous window of the fashion industry, a set of clothes on display in the fashion museum is telling people its own story, and behind the story, it is people's appreciation and yearning for beauty for hundreds of years. "Fashion is fleeting, style is eternal." This sentence is both the founder of Chanel Gabrielle Chanel's insight into fashion, but also in the continuous evolution of fashion trends and design concepts across the ages, the relentless pursuit of beauty and style.
