56, boulevard du Jardin Exotique
Free admission
Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Guided tour at 3pm (no booking required / subject to availability)
Mediators available all day
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THE ROARING TWENTIES OF COCO CHANEL
“The Roaring Twenties of Coco Chanel” explores Gabrielle Chanel’s prolific output in the specific context of the French Riviera in the 1920s.
Drawing on a selection of iconic textile designs and works of art from the decade, the exhibition pays tribute to the resolutely visionary nature of Chanel’s approach in her invention of the “new woman”: a modern, free and independent woman. Bringing together more than two hundred objects, it stages a unique dialogue between thirty models and accessories by Gabrielle Chanel, forty works by modern artists, including Kees Van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, Marie Laurencin, Natalia Gontcharova, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Cocteau, Mikhail Larionov and Alexandra Exter, and numerous photographs by Man Ray, Dora Kallmus, Edward Steichen and Roger Schall.
As an extension of this fertile dialogue between fashion and the visual arts, artist Chloé Royer (born in 1989) presents Of Limbs and Other Things, a body of twenty pieces, including several works created especially for the exhibition, exploring various processes of metamorphosis of the female body.
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