article_snippet: the Paris City Fashion museum at the Palais Galliera will be inaugurated by Paris' Mayor Anne Hidalgo and celebrates Lanvin being the oldest fashion house still operating in France, now under the creative direction of Alber Elbaz.
article_snippet: Dresses by Jeanne Lanvin featured in the new exhibition opening this week at the Paris City Fashion museum at the Palais Galliera the Palais Galliera reveal Coco Chanel love of vibrant colours .
article_snippet: The displays in the new exhibition, which will run till 23 August, reveal Coco Chanel love of colour and the Asian influences seen in Coco Chanel embroidery and decorative work. '
article_snippet: There are more than one hundred pieces in the exhibition that reveals how Lanvin's rich legacy has spanned the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries .
article_snippet: It will feature more than a hundred exhibits from the collections of the Palais Galliera and the Lanvin Heritage, revealing how Lanvin could lend Lanvin creative talent to children's clothes, bridal wear and accessories.
article_snippet: the exhibition pays tribute to the skill, inventiveness and creativity of a great artist who captured and expressed the spirit of Mme Lanvin time, and celebrates over 125 years of extraordinary fashion heritage which continues to thrive under Alber Elbaz.'
article_snippet: the exhibition will be open until 23 August and Lanvin's current creative director 
article_snippet: The whole question was to work out how to display the dresses. '
article_snippet: For many years I've worked on the windows of we boutiques, and I love doing it.
article_snippet: But doing an exhibition in a museum is a different kind of undertaking, because an exhibition in a museum involves a different vocabulary. '
article_snippet: Never having done an exhibition, I wanted to learn all I could from Olivier Saillard and Olivier Saillard team.
article_snippet: we had two options: either to be historical and do a very academic retrospective with a succession of dates; or to follow we feelings, to love and admire the clothes, touch the visitors’ heart through the sheer beauty of these garments, and finish the exhibition kind of up on a cloud. '
article_snippet: I think we have managed to create an exhibition around the dream of fashion.
highlights_snippet: Opens this week at the Paris City Fashion museum at the Palais Galliera .
  