Category: Events & Exhibitions
Conferences - Fashion and Haute Couture in Paris: Production, distribution, representation
Until Friday, June 20, 2025
The Comité d'histoire de la Ville de Paris and the Petit Palais offer lectures on the history of fashion.
To accompany the two exhibitions at the Petit Palais devoted to the history of the Worth fashion house and jewelry designs, the Comité d'histoire de la Ville de Paris is offering a new look at the history of fashion and haute couture in Paris. This series of lectures will present the protagonists, creative processes, customer expectations and distribution methods of haute couture. It will examine the evolution of the Parisian fashion world since the end of the 19th century.
- Friday, May 16, 12:30 p.m.
La Garçonne, a new kind of fashion in the 1920s by Marine Chaleroux, PhD student in art history, University of Angers.
- Friday, May 23, 12:30 p.m.
Fashion photography, a means of disseminating and promoting haute couture (19th - 20th centuries) by Marlène Van de Casteele, post-doctoral research professor, ESMOD research laboratory.
- Friday, June 6, 12:30 p.m.
Making a name for yourself with French and international customers: the example of the Beer fashion house by Mathilde Héliot, fashion historian.
- Friday, June 20, 12:30 p.m.
Department stores, showcases for haute couture? by Florence Brachet Champsaur, Doctor of History, Director of Culture, Heritage and Remembrance Policy, SNCF.
Practical information
Petit Palais - Musée des beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris
2 avenue Winston-Churchill, Paris 8e
Until Friday, June 20, 2025
Fridays, 12:30 pm to 2 pm
Free
No advance registration, subject to availability.
