{"id":94286,"date":"2025-05-12T02:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94286\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T02:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:59:12","slug":"france-pavilion-a-hymn-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94286\/","title":{"rendered":"France Pavilion: A Hymn to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-series\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/series\/expo2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tGuideto Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Global+Exchange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Exchange<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMay 12, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tA look at the French pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>  \t\t\t\t Globally Known Brands in a Contest of Beauty<\/p>\n<p>The French pavilion takes the form of a stage, with the theme of \u201cA Hymn to Love.\u201d The exhibits inside feature the work of globally known fashion houses, showing off craft skill and love for Japanese culture.<\/p>\n<p>Regular exhibits include an artistic space created by 85 trunks from Louis Vuitton, while Dior is showing Bar suits lined in red, white and blue like the tricolored French flag and 3D-printed perfume bottles.<\/p>\n<p>Celine is hosting a temporary exhibit featuring lacquer-ware artworks by Wajima -based artist collective Hikoj\u016b Makie. Chaumet has a deeply immersive digital art exhibit, although it is the statues by Rodin placed nonchalantly alongside the high-tech displays that catch the eye.<\/p>\n<p>Drinks giant Mo\u00ebt Hennessy has a hand in the attached bistro menu, while the rooftop garden offers a moment of respite among the flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The French pavilion is located in the Empowering Lives zone. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expo2025.or.jp\/en\/expo-map-index\/map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the official map<\/a> for details.) France marks its national day on Saturday, September 13, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/guide-to-japan\/expo2025004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expo National Day Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/guide-to-japan\/expo2025001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_ltr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/ncommon\/contents\/guide-to-japan\/2781819\/2781819.jpg\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;this.src=\" https:=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2794922.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2794922\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2794922.jpg\" data-libid=\"2794922\" alt=\"A display of trunks by Louis Vuitton.\u3000(\u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com)\"\/><\/a><br \/>A display of trunks by Louis Vuitton.\u3000(\u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2794925.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2794925\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2794925.jpg\" data-libid=\"2794925\" alt=\"Blue, white, and red Bar suits by Dior. (\u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com)\"\/><\/a><br \/>Blue, white, and red Bar suits by Dior. (\u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2794923.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2794923\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2794923.jpg\" data-libid=\"2794923\" alt=\"An exhibit links Mont-Saint-Michel and a Japanese torii with a sacred rope. (\u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com)\"\/><\/a><br \/>An exhibit links Mont-Saint-Michel and a Japanese torii with a sacred rope. (\u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2794924.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2794924\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2794924.jpg\" data-libid=\"2794924\" alt=\"The outside of the French pavilion. (\u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com)\"\/><\/a><br \/>The outside of the French pavilion. (\u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com)<\/p>\n<p>(Originally published in Japanese. Reporting and text by Uchiyama Ken\u2019ichi and Nippon.com. Photographic assistance by Kuroiwa Masakazu of 96-Box. Banner photo \u00a9\u00a0Nippon.com.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Osaka<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Kansai<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Expo<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai Guideto Japan Travel Global Exchange May 12, 2025 A look at the French pavilion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,40989,36,40988,15695],"class_list":{"0":"post-94286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-expo","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-kansai","13":"tag-osaka"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114492628382364106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}