The 12 most beautiful fashion museums in the world

From Paris to New York via London and Antwerp, Overview of these fashion writings all more breathtaking than the others, who attract fashion enthusiasts around the world with skillfully scenographed exhibitions, given tosold out.

The Galliera Palace in Paris

The fashion museum of the city of Paris is located in the palace of the Duchess of Galliera which had the idea in 1978 to have the museum built to receive its prestigious collection of works of art which it wishes to bequeath to thecity ​​of Paris.The architect Léon Ginain is in charge of the project.In 1894, the establishment officially opened its doors in the 16ᵉ arrondissement, but it was not until 1977 that the Galliera palace became Paris fashion museum.Clean of temporary exhibitions to the great success (we think of Alaïa, Dalida, the 1950s and lately Margiela-Galliera 1988-2018), creating impatience between each closure period, the Galliera palace is today one of themore prestigious fashion museums in the world.Currently closed for work, the museum offers a second youth at the end of 2019 with the opening of new exhibition galleries, called Gabrielle Chanel, made possible thanks to the exclusive patronage of the Chanel.The institution will highlight, now all year round, collections telling the history of fashion from 18th to today, within its new underground rooms spread over 670 m² and furnished by the architect Dominique Brard.The Galliera Palace, currently directed by Miren Arzalluz, will thus become the only permanent fashion museum in France.

10 avenue Pierre 1er in Serbia, 75016 Paris

The Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris

Inaugurated in 1905 in the Marsan wing of the Palais du Louvre, the Museum of Decorative Arts, imagined by the architect Gaston Redon, houses an amazing collection of decorative arts and design.A fund of more than 150,000 fashion pieces, woman and child, dating from the 13th to the 21st century, including exceptional gifts from Paul Poiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cristobal Balenciaga and Christian Lacroix and also Christian Dior who donatedFrom the prototype of the bar tailor, the 1947 New Look icon in 1957.Creator of sensational exhibitions, such as Dries Van Notten or detective holding required !, The museum just aimed by presenting the Christian Dior exhibition, Couturier du Rêve in 2017, given on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the house and whichattracted more than 700,000 visitors.A record for the museum, which will get a facelift in March 2020 by reopping its fashion galleries, currently restored thanks to the patronage of the American financier Stephen A.Schwarzman and his wife.

107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris

Met it in New York

Located in the heart of New York on the fifth avenue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) is one of the largest art museums in the world and a compulsory passage when you come to Big Apple.Inaugurated in 1872, the museum shelters more than 2 million works of art from all over the world.From the statues of antiquity to the fabrics of French masters, including a large collection of American art, the Met offers an incredible range of masterpieces, themed during event exhibitions which beat influx records at eachopening.Like the Mode du Printemps exhibition, inaugurated during the very publicized Gala of the Costume Institute which brings together the cream of fashion and entertainment personalities, around Anna Wintour to whom the museum dedicated one ofits wings, Anna Wintour Costume Center.

1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States

Le V&A Museum à Londres

Victoria and Albert Museum is one of the largest European museums.Designed the day after the 1851 universal exhibition, the London museum specializes in decorative arts and welcomes an incredible collection of objects (jewelry, clothing, furniture, tapestries, crystalleries...) dating from Sumerian antiquity to today.But it is above all his fashion department that arouses attention. Attiré par le succès de l'exposition Christian Dior, couturier du rêve, au Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, le V&A Museum l'accueille entre ses murs jusqu'en septembre prochain.Never has such a monumental exhibition been dedicated to the Dior house in Great Britain.Larger, even more advanced, enriched with a new thematic space dedicated to the fascination of Christian Dior for British culture...The London exhibition is even more beautiful than that of Paris.Hearing.

Cromwell RD, Knightsbridge, London Sw7 2RL, United Kingdom

The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris

On October 3, 2017, the Yves Saint Laurent Paris museum opened its doors within the Historic Hotel of 5 avenue Marceau which currently houses the Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent Foundation.This brand new space, spread over 450m², hosts a retrospective course with fifty models accompanied by accessories, sketches, photographs and videos, as well as thematic exhibitions.An upper point of the visit, the old sewing salons and the studio of Yves Saint Laurent which plunge back into the origins of the Parisian house founded in July 1961.Scenographed by Nathalie Mière and decorated by Jacques Grange, loyal collaborators of the Foundation, and thought by the architectural agency Jean-Michel Rousseau, the Yves Saint Laurent Paris museum plunges the visitor into the original atmosphere of the Haute Couture MaisonThrough event exhibitions like Asia dreamed of Yves Saint Laurent, teleported at the end of April at the Museum of Asian Arts in Nice.

Fit Museum in New York

Since its opening in 1969, the Museum of Fashion Institute of Technology in New York has established itself as the field of the most daring and most innovative fashion exhibitions.To celebrate this fiftieth anniversary, exhibitionism looks at 33 of the most memorable exhibitions in the museum, from the very first, devoted to the Hollywood costume designer Gilbert Adrian, to the most recent such as Denim: Fashion's Frontier (2016), Black Fashion Designers (2016) or a queer History of Fashion (2013).More than a century of fashion and reflections on its role in the evolution of our society, and the incredible opportunity to observe near real masterpieces of clothing, such as the surreal dresses of Elsa Schiaparelli,The drapes of Madame Grès and the sculptural dresses of Alexander McQueen.

227 W 27th ST, New York, NY 10001, United States

The Christian Dior Museum in Granville

At the beginning of the XXth century, in the Villa Les Rhumbs built on the side of the cliff, Christian Dior knows his first joys and pain.A beautiful typical Norman building tinged with pink and gray which has never stopped inspiring it: "My life, my style owes almost everything to its situation and its architecture" he writes in its memoirs.He made his childhood home a real creative source, just like his family, of which he was inspired by style and elegance to create couture dresses of an extreme refinement which, even today,amaze.It is quite natural that the Villa of Granville becomes the Christian Dior Museum in the late 90s, welcoming sublime exhibitions dedicated to the history of the French fashion house, and its links with the personalities it has dressed, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly in mind.

1 rue d'Estouteville, 50400 Granville

The Cristóbal Balenciaga museum in Getaria

Inaugurated in 2011 in Getaria who saw the birth of the Spanish creator in 1895, the Museum Cristóbal Balenciaga served as a setting for the couturier's work.Distributed in the old Palais Aldamar and a modern annex thought of by the architect Julián Argilagos, the museum located a few kilometers from San Sebastian is articulated in six rooms telling the story of the emblematic fashion house, with regard to a richCollection of haute couture creations, some of which belong to the Balenciaga Foundation, and inspirations of the Creator.

Aldamar Parkea Parkea, 6, 20808 Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Spain

The Momu in Antwerp

Founded in 2002, the Momu crystallizes what Belgian fashion does better.Currently closed for renovation and extension work that will end in 2020, the Antwerp Museum of Antwerp Located, located, rich in more than 30,000 pieces which will be exposed permanently and more in -depth during its reopening, S'is forged a solid reputation by offering skillfully stenographed event exhibitions that have attracted all eyes.We think in particular of Dries Van Notten - Inspirations in 2015 or Margiela: the Hermès years in 2017.

Nationalraat 28, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

Gucci Garden in Florence

All the fantasy of Alessandro Michele for Gucci concentrated in a single space.This is the dream made by the Italian house in January 2018 by opening the doors of its Gucci Garden, within the Palazzo Della Mercanzia in Florence.Lifted by Alessandro Michele in person, this museum entirely dedicated to the house welcomes several exhibition halls supervised by criticism and conservative Maria Luisa Frisa, as well as a shop of exclusive products and a restaurant orchestrated by the best chef in the world, MassimoBottura, just that.

Piazza della signoria, 10, 50122 FIRENZE FI, Italy

The city of lace and fashion in Calais

Inaugurated in June 2009 in an old lace factory, the Boulart factory, founded in the 1870s, the Cité de la Lace and the Calais fashion is dedicated to the history of lace and its production methods.Here, the fashion galleries have 3,220 creations from 1850 to the present day while the Tissuthèque shows 500,000 drawing samples and 30,000 lace pieces.We remember these exhibitions, high lace which presented an exceptional series of haute couture and ready-to-wear dresses (from Chanel to Dior via Valentino, Jean Paul Gaultier and Margiela), delicate witnesses of the expertise of theseLace houses with ancestral know-how which knew how to renew itself and marry, as finely as possible, the desires of the designers and the modes;Or the Hubert de Givenchy retrospective which returned to the history of the house with regard to emblematic creations (Bettina blouse, black dress by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Rose Coat of Jackie Kennedy) of videos, sketches and irresistible anecdotes onThe creator disappeared on March 10, 2018.

135 Quai du Commerce, 62100 Calais

The Ferragamo Salvatore Museum in Florence

Inaugurated in the heart of the Palazzo Spini Feroni in Florence in 1995, the Salvatore Ferragamo museum celebrates the Italian house, its sharp know-how and its inspired universe.The first play in the museum contains a selection of films and photographs testifying to the know-how of the house.Even more striking, a section of wall entirely covered with pairs of shoes from collections dating from the 1950s to 60s.Other models from the 1930s to 40s are presented in glass cubes.In May 2015, the museum paid tribute to Florence for a retrospective exhibition imagined by Stefania Ricci and Riccardo Spinelli who traced 150 years of history of the Florentin Palace with regard to prestigious works of art and rare documents from museums andPrivate collections from around the world.From his first foundations in 1289 to the installation of the Luigi Bellini gallery in the 1920s, including the development of hotel rooms in the 19th century, the exhibition returned to the key moments in the history of the medieval palace.

Piazza di Santa Trinita, 5R, 50123 FIRENZE FI, Italy

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