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Animalia Fashion is one of the most surprising and evocative installations in the field
of Haute Couture, pure poetry in the juxtapositions proposed, yet at the same
time an invitation to reflect on the wonders of the universe, if we consider
the layout designed as a fantastic, hyperbolic natural history museum.
Clothing, accessories and jewels become an experience, a journey of exploration
probing the history of zoological science, but above all, a discovery of forms
and colours that conjure up images of animals both common and rare. Contemporary
style – the exhibition showcases items
created between 2000 and 2018.
The 18 rooms over which the exhibition is spread open with a section devoted to spiders and continue with sections devoted to swans, shells, hedgehogs, fish, coral, parrots, lobsters with Lydia Courteille's earrings, babirusa, porcupinefish, snakes, beetles with Lydia Courteille's earrings, flies, bees and crocodiles with Lydia Courteille's cuff, winding up with butterflies.
8 January – 5 May
2019