LOUVRE COUTURE
Objets d’Art, Objets de Mode
My visits to the Musée du Louvre are infrequent enough that my senses are still completely disarmed and slain anew by the gravitas of the museum. A possession occurs when one enters, an instinct to speak softer and look closer, a serene deference tantamount to what one may describe as a religious experience when stepping inside the Notre Dame, the hallowed Parisian cathedral, only a pleasant walk away. On one crisp February evening, as the glass pyramid in the center of the Cour Napoleon was at its most glistening, my husband, our two children and I entered the Louvre to take in its first fashion exhibition- Louvre Couture: Objets d’art, Objets de mode. (Read more…)
DOLCE & GABBANA’S DU CŒUR À LA MAIN (FROM THE HEART TO THE HAND) RETROSPECTIVE
An opulent retrospective of the house’s palatial fashion legacy.
There is an on-the-downlow debate amongst sartorial enthusiasts on whose style is indeed more stylish, the French or the Italian? Both cultures are powerhouses and have their signature hallmarks that the world has come to identify as either staggeringly French chic (inconspicuous cool attained by rigorous haute standards) or sumptuous Italian flare (an embrace of extravagance through exacting tailoring.)
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MUSÉE JACQUEMART ANDRÉ
A magnetic and sumptuous Parisian hôtel particulier
The grandiosity of august institutions such as the Louvre, the Musee d’Orsay, the Pompidou and their more diminutive siblings – strictly speaking in physical scale only – the Musee Rodin and the Musee Picasso overwhelmed my day-off planner while I was on my work trips to the City of Light. I was in my 20s then and could persevere through days of cultural sightseeing and cobblestones in high heels. Once in, this fashion choice made in the name of vanity, became a practical leg-up as my 5’2” self was most frequently found behind rows of bobbing heads, meters away from the coveted masterpiece. (Read more…)
