Plein les yeux!
Subtitle: le spectacle de la mode = A feast for the eyes! : spectacular fashions / [direction éditoriale, Dario Cimorelli]
Contributors: Cité internationale de la dentelle et de la mode (Calais, France)
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale Spa
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cinisello Balsamo, Milan
Language: fre
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9788836624287
Subjects: Costume; Exhibitions; History; Costume design; Fashion; Motion picture actors and actresses; Clothing; Fashion in motion pictures
Other titles: Feast for the eyes! :
Description: Co-curated by Shazia Boucher and Isabelle Paresys, the exhibition explored how fashion modified and altered the natural silhouette of the body, the posture and the gesture of the wearer as early as the 16th century. Historical garments include examples of the gigantic ruffled lace collars that reached their height among the European elite in the late 16th century and other exaggerated styles that made the wearer appear more imposing and majestic. Impressive theatrical costumes are also on exhibit, such as those worn in Gone With the Wind, La Reine Margot, and Macbeth, some of them amazingly rich in embroidery, beading and other ornamentation. A section on modern designs displays creations by Chanel, Dior, Givenchy, Lacroix, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler that were inspired by the extravagant styles of earlier eras. The Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode is housed in an authentic 19th-century lace factory, a vestige of the rich industrial past of the Calais region, once famous for its tulle and lace.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Cité internationale de la dentelle et de la mode, Calais, France, January 16-April 28, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-98).

French and English.