Amidst the myriad runway exhibits at the moment taking part in out in Paris, there’s just one place the place individuals can go and discover Comme des Garçons, Chanel, Marine Serre, Thebe Magugu, Yohji Yamamoto, Coco Chanel and Kevin Germanier plus 10 different visionary designers as a single expertise. Sensitively staged by the revered French style journalist and writer Laurence Benaïm, La traverse des apparences (Bridging Appearances) on the Centre Pompidou proposes fascinating style juxtapositions all through the museum’s fifth flooring everlasting collections.

Her carte blanche curation begins with what seems to be like a clean canvas crumpled right into a sculpture. Besides that it’s truly look 7 from Viktor & Rolf’s fall 2015 high fashion assortment, which they known as “Wearable Artwork.” That is Benhaïm introducing the double notion of the canvas (a toile in French refers to each the artist’s canvas and the unique sample for making a garment): “In artwork and in style, the concept of the clean web page,” she mentioned throughout a latest walkthrough. “The concept is to point out that, at a time when artists have gotten manufacturers, and at a time when style manufacturers are being lowered to logos, I wished to point out you can specific an identification with no brand.”