{"id":30351,"date":"2025-08-29T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30351\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:10:32","slug":"the-louvres-first-fashion-exhibition-attracted-1-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30351\/","title":{"rendered":"The Louvre’s First Fashion Exhibition Attracted 1 Million People"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMUSEUM QUALITY<\/strong>: Fashion<\/a> may be in the doldrums, but it still can draw one helluva crowd. The Louvre\u2019s first fashion exhibition<\/a>, which wound up its seven-month run on Sunday, welcomed 1.06 million visitors \u2014 almost as many as the hit Leonardo da Vinci show in 2019, the most attended show in its history.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to museum officials, \u201cLouvre Couture: Art and Fashion<\/a> \u2014 Statement Pieces,\u201d fulfilled its mission of attracting a new and younger audience to its extensive collection of decorative arts<\/a>, which ranges from suits of armor, ceramics, ivories, tapestries and scientific instruments to jewelry, bronzes, stained glass and silverware.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVisitors could use a map to treasure hunt for looks by Jacquemus, Marine Serre, Undercover, Vivienne Westwood, Rick Owens, Loewe, Iris Van Herpen and others scattered across the nearly 100,000 square feet occupied by the department. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe showcase drew literal, oblique and sometimes amusing links between the precious historical objects on display and about 65 contemporary\u00a0fashion<\/a>\u00a0ensembles, plus 35 accessories, installed here and there.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Louvre<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tA Yohji Yamamoto look at the Louvre.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Louvre is essentially couture. I am delighted that these juxtapositions have touched the public\u2019s heart,\u201d said Olivier Gabet, director of the decorative arts department and curator of the hit show, whose run was extended by a month. He noted all designers and houses agreed to prolong their loans \u201cwithout hesitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLaurence des Cars, president and director of the Louvre, said the popularity of the show \u201cconfirms the value of the intersection of disciplines and perspectives, as well as the Louvre\u2019s contemporary presence as a source of inspiration for all creators.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMuseums are great mood boards,\u201d\u00a0Gabet concurred.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo be sure, the fashion\u00a0exhibition<\/a>\u00a0was not mounted for want of visitors: The Louvre attracts nearly 9 million people per year, and management decided in 2022 to cap the number of daily admissions to 30,000.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe museum is currently struggling with dated infrastructure and congestion, and will undergo a multiyear renovation incorporating a separate entrance for its forever main attraction: da Vinci\u2019s \u201cMona Lisa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUSEUM QUALITY: Fashion may be in the doldrums, but it still can draw one helluva crowd. The Louvre\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,2037,596,19,17,24126],"class_list":{"0":"post-30351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-exhibition","16":"tag-fashion","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-louvre-museum"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}