Welcome Hotel recommends you a great exhibition: “Tenue correcte exigée, quand le vêtement fait scandale”.
Because it is fashion Week and because we are in Paris, we needed to visit the exhibition of Décorative Arts Museum. And after this beautiful discovery, Welcome Hotel is pleased to recommend it to you!
It is always fascinating to realize how fashion is part of our daily lives and influences our society. Everyone in front of his mirror asks the question: what should I wear? So there are codes to follow, standards to adopt. And yet, history shows that transgressions have brought much more than clothing revolutions.
With 300 clothes, accessories, objects and portraits, the exhibition invites us to take a look at the major turning points in fashion that have given rise to or accompanied sociological changes since the 14th century. Around 3 topics, Dress codes, Girl or boy? and Provocative excess, the Decorative Arts Museum pushes the reflection in the heart of debates always current. Are we in perpetual quest for identity or on the contrary in search of conformity?
Dress Codes is interested in the protocol, introduction of certain obligations of dress according to an event, a social class or even the time of day. The museum unveils day wear, promenade wear and dance wear worn by the same woman in a single day, or the portrait of Marie Antoinette in light dress painted by Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun and which caused a real scandal. It was even replaced by a much more respectable portrait of the queen.
Girl or boy? talks about a very delicate subject: the access to pants and men’s clothing by women. From Jeanne d’Arc to the women’s tuxedo through the men’s skirt, androgyny has aroused and still arouses strong criticism. However, the great creators have adopted those transgressive styles and popularized them.
Finally, Provocative excess deals with “too much”. Too long, too short, too low-cut, or too transparent. Every era has experienced its infractions to the codes and the examples provided by the exhibition can make smile today, but it is important to contextualize.
When we leave the exhibition “Tenue correcte exigée“, we question ourselves, we reposition and above all we look at the mirror and ask ourselves the eternal question: how should I be dressed? The only answer we can give you now is: at Welcome Hotel, we welcome you in the outfit that suits you!
See you soon Welcome Hotel…