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Tenue correcte exigée, quand le vetement fait scandale

An exhibition on everything that caused a sensation in the fashion world

At each fashion week, it is difficult to escape the main topic: dress codes. The exhibition, “Tenue correcte exigée, quand le vêtement fait scandale”, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, is an invitation to visit the great scandals that have made the history of fashion from the 14th century to the present.

This exhibition aims to explore three hundred pieces of clothing, accessories, portraits, caricatures, and various objects that have clashed with the codes or the moral values ​​of the period to which they refer. From the robe volante to women’s pants, from skirts for men to tuxedos for women, from miniskirts to  baggy pants down to blue jeans: all marked a break, creating violent criticism or even prohibitions  at the moment of their first appearance. Perhaps because they were too long or too short, too tight or too wide, too indecent or too prudish, too feminine for men or too masculine for women, these items of clothing  infringed the cardinal rule: that of going against the standards or norms imposed from above, transgressing the established order.

“Tenue correcte exigée, quand le vêtement fait scandale” is a perfect lesson in life: fashion is not only seasonal trends, it is a sociological phenomenon, it is able to anticipate great revolutionary events since, thanks to clothing, we recount something of ourselves, something we still cannot fully express in our own words. Fashion anticipates wars, fashion anticipates revolutions  – the miniskirt came a few years before the student movements of ’68.  Fashion tells about a piece of the history of man, and the “scandals” of fashion make us understand much of the world we have experienced and we are experiencing. Until April 26th.

XRD1700231 Un Tramway nomme desir A Streetcar Named Desire de EliaKazan avec Marlon Brando 1951; (add.info.: Un Tramway nomme desir A Streetcar Named Desire de EliaKazan avec Marlon Brando 1951); EDITORIAL USE ONLY; out of copyrightXRD1700231 Un Tramway nomme desir A Streetcar Named Desire de EliaKazan avec Marlon Brando 1951; (add.info.: Un Tramway nomme desir A Streetcar Named Desire de EliaKazan avec Marlon Brando 1951); EDITORIAL USE ONLY; out of copyright

Marlon Brando  ” A Streetcar named Desire” 1951 ©Bridgeman Images

 

MOROCCO, Marlene Dietrich, 1930MOROCCO, Marlene Dietrich, 1930

Coeur Brulé Deutsche Kinemathek , Marlene Dietrich Collection , Berlin 1930 ©Eugene Robert Richee

 

10_Un homme retraité fixe des jeunes femmes en minijupes, 13 juillet 1969, Nice. STAFF, AFP, Getty Images

Nizza il 13 luglio 1969 AFP /©Getty Images, Staaf

 

XRD1704954 Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe by YvesRobert with Mireille Darc here wearing a dress by Guy Laroche, 1973; (add.info.: Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire de YvesRobert avec Mireille Darc ici dans une robe de Guy Laroche, 1973 Neg:A76638PL --- Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe by YvesRobert with Mireille Darc here wearing a dress by Guy Laroche, 1973); EDITORIAL USE ONLY; out of copyrightXRD1704954 Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe by YvesRobert with Mireille Darc here wearing a dress by Guy Laroche, 1973; (add.info.: Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire de YvesRobert avec Mireille Darc ici dans une robe de Guy Laroche, 1973 Neg:A76638PL --- Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe by YvesRobert with Mireille Darc here wearing a dress by Guy Laroche, 1973); EDITORIAL USE ONLY; out of copyright

” Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire”, 1972 . Mirelle Darc wearing  Guy Laroche,  Musée des Arts Décoratifs i ©Bridgeman Images

 

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