London’s Victoria & Albert Museum has hosted some memorable fashion exhibitions and a retrospective of Gabrielle Chanel’s work is planned for September 2023.
The museum presents the first exhibition dedicated to the work of the French fashion designer and proposes to tell the story of the fashion brand and its founder, from the first hat shop opened in Paris, in 1910, to the presentation of his latest collection. in 1971, the year of his death (January 10).
This journey through the Chanel universe unfolds through eight chapters. There will be more than 180 looks that will be seen together for the first time, and jewelry, accessories, cosmetics and perfumery will be added to clothing. After all, it was thanks to Gabrielle Chanel that iconic and desired pieces, such as the 2.55 bag or the No. 5 perfume, came onto the market.
Visitors will be able to see several iconic Chanel style pieces, as well as creations designed for celebrities such as actresses Lauren Bacall and Marlene Dietrich and British model Anne Gunning. Chanel’s British inspirations will be highlighted, one of which is tweed, since it was from the United Kingdom that the creator brought one of the house’s star materials.
Two Chanel looks at the Victoria & Albert Museum. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Throughout a life dedicated to fashion, it became difficult to dissociate the creator of the brand, because Gabrielle Chanel created to her liking and was, without a doubt, the best model of the style she created. She defined a disruptive style in the times she lived through, she created a new image of feminine elegance that over the years has remained current and influential in women’s fashion.
This exhibition is based on “Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto”, an exhibition created by Palais Galliera, the fashion museum in Paris, where it was exhibited between October 1, 2020 and July 18, 2021. For Victoria & Albert it will be reimagined and, with pieces from the French and from the Chanel house archive, there are others from the London museum collection.
The Chanel brand remains one of the most relevant in today’s fashion scene, more than a hundred years after its foundation. The exhibition “Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto” will open to the public at the Victoria & Albert Museum on September 16, 2023 and will be on view until February 25, 2024.
Mademoiselle Chanel at work. © Schall Collection. roger schall
Victoria & Albert is an art and design museum whose collection of more than 2.3 million pieces spans five thousand years of human history. Named after the famous British queen and her husband, Prince Albert, it is now one of the most famous museums in the world. He currently has the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, as patron. The piece by the artist Chihuli suspended from the ceiling at the entrance of the museum is just an appetizer of the many paths that visitors can follow to discover collections of sculpture, painting, furniture, art from non-European cultures, jewellery, performing arts and fashion.
In 2019, the V&A hosted the “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams” exhibition, which celebrated the 70th anniversary of the French maison, and received more than half a million visitors, specifically 594,994 people, making it the most visited in the world London Museum.
Source: Observadora
