Comme des Garçons, collection "COUPS DE MAITRE" par IRVING PENN, Vogue Paris / Mannequin SHALOM HARLOW. Archives Vogue Paris/ Irving Penn
from
7 March
to
16 July
2023
Exposition

1997

Fashion Big Bang
From 7 March to 16 July 2023, the Palais Galliera is organising an exhibition focusing on the year 1997, a watershed year in the history of contemporary fashion.

1997 was both a high point of 1990s fashion and the gateway to the new millennium. It brought a flurry of collections, shows, new appointments, openings and events that defined the fashion scene as we know it today. Such was its impact that 1997 can be thought of as the launching pad for 21st century fashion.

1997 was notable for a number of emblematic collections: bodies deformed by Comme des Garçons with the Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body collection, Martin Margiela’s conceptualised garments in the Stockman collection, and Raf Simons’s redefinition of the canons of male beauty in the Black Palms collection.

The magazine Vogue Paris defined the 1997 Spring-Summer haute couture season as the ‘Big Bang’ that Paris needed in order to regain its place as the international capital of fashion in an era of economic crisis and intense global competition. But there’s no denying that 1997 was a vintage year. It saw the arrival in haute couture of star designers from the 1980s, such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler, while the legendary French fashion houses were taken over by a new generation of British designers, with Alexander McQueen at Givenchy and John Galliano at Christian Dior.

The globalisation of fashion gathered pace, foreshadowing the 2000s and 2010s. Young, little-known artistic directors rose to prominence, either on their own or at the head of major fashion houses: Hedi Slimane, Stella McCartney, Nicolas Ghesquière, Olivier Theyskens – names that are still shaping fashion today.

A whole series of events marked the beginning of the new era: the concept store Colette opened and stayed at the epicentre of fashion for the next 20 years. But also, that same year, the world of fashion was shaken by the tragic death of Gianni Versace.

The chronological layout of the exhibition features over 50 silhouettes from the Palais Galliera collections, along with loans from museums and international collectors and fashion houses. And it also includes videos and some outstanding archive documents.

The exhibition 1997 Fashion Big Bang is an invitation to discover or to relive key events from this ‘explosive’ year in fashion history.

#expo1997

Public et Horaire

  • Enfant / Adolescent
  • Famille
  • Adulte
Les horaires en détail

Museum

Palais Galliera
Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

10, Avenue Pierre-1er-de-Serbie
75116 Paris
France

Infos Pratiques

Horaires de l'exposition

Palais Galliera, Paris Fashion Museum
10 Avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie Paris 16e

Tél : 01 56 52 86 00

 

Opening times
• From 10 am to 6 pm, Tuesday to Sunday
• Nocturne on Thursdays until 9pm
• Closed on Monday, 1 May, 25 December and 1 January

 

Price

Full rate : 15€

Reduced rate : 13€

Free admission under 18 years old

Public

  • Enfant / Adolescent
  • Famille
  • Adulte

Affiche de l'exposition 1997 Fashion Big bang

Affiche de l'exposition 1997 Fashion Big bang

Photo : Comme des Garçons par Rei Kawakubo, collection « Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body », Prêt-à-porter Printemps-été 1997 - Photo Irving Penn / Mannequin Christina Krusse - © Condé Nast / The Irving Penn Foundation

CURATOR

Alexandre Samson, Head of collections, haute couture (after 1947) and contemporary creation departments, at the Palais Galliera,

assisted by Louise Habert

Comme des Garçons, collection "COUPS DE MAITRE" par IRVING PENN, Vogue Paris / Mannequin SHALOM HARLOW. Archives Vogue Paris/ Irving Penn

Comme des Garçons, collection "COUPS DE MAITRE" par IRVING PENN, Vogue Paris / Mannequin SHALOM HARLOW. Archives Vogue Paris/ Irving Penn

Christian Dior par John Galliano, Robes «Kusudi» et «Kitu» haute Couture Printemps-été 1997

Christian Dior par John Galliano, Robes «Kusudi» et «Kitu» haute Couture Printemps-été 1997. Photo Peter Lindbergh. Christian Dior by John Galliano, "Kusudi" and "Kitu" Haute Couture Spring-Summer 1997 dresses. Photo by Peter Lindbergh.© Courtesy of Peter Lindbergh Foundation

Reebook Fury, 1997

Reebook Fury, 1997. Modèle vendu chez Colette/ Reebok Brand Archives. Reebook Fury, 1997. Sold at the Colette store/ Reebok Brand Archives.© Reebok International Ltd.

Comme des Garçons, costumes du ballet de Merce Cunnigham

Comme des Garçons, costumes du ballet de Merce Cunnigham, présentéen 1997 à la Brooklyn Academy of Music (et en 1998 à l'Opéra de Paris).

Comme des Garçons, costumes for Merce Cunnigham's ballet, performed in 1997 at the Broklyn Academy of Music (and in 1998 at the Paris Opera).© Greenfield Sanders

Jean Paul Gaultier, première collection haute couture Printemps-été 1997

Jean Paul Gaultier, première collection haute couture Printemps-été 1997. Photo Michael Thompson publiée dans Vogue Paris en Mars 1997 qui tirait "Gaultier, l'envol de la couture".Jean Paul Gaultier, first haute couture collection Spring-Summer 1997.

Photo by Michael Thompson published in Vogue Paris in March 1997, which featured "Gaultier, l'envol de la couture".