Costumed balls Dressing up history, 1870-1927
Montreal (CA) >14.11.2024 - 17.08.2025
A century and a half ago, the costumed balls and extravagant skating carnivals were the pinnacle of worldly entertainment and staged a kaleidoscopic fantasy suit. However, behind their anachronistic exuberance, these balls reinforced the founding myths of the Empire's colonial destiny and future. This exhibition captures the splendour of the entertainments where each one and everyone transformed, for the time of an evening, into a fanciful character inspired by history. She gives an extraordinary account of these lavish events through some of the most striking objects in the museum's collections. It is rare that, in the same exhibition space, so many 19th century clothes designed for ephemeral use, as well as the photographs of the people who put them on, can be admired. Similarly, it is rare to see captured by photographers of the time the humor and eccentricity of those who participated in these grandiose evenings, the lightness then often being absent from public performances. The invitation to reinvent oneself in an alter ego, inspired by history or fantasy, represented a unique opportunity requiring research, expense and a visit to the photographic studio. The exhibition examines in depth the objects that preserve the memory of these historical balls, making astute digital use to unveil the secrets for the great pleasure of the contemporary public. More than 40 dazzling clothes, but also photographs of the costume people and memorabilia publications restore the pomp of these prestigious events. This exhibition and the accompanying book are the culmination of a research project of unusual scope based on the wealth and strengths of the McCord Stewart Museum’s collections. These made astonishing discoveries now revealed to the public for the first time.
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Musee McCord Stewart Montreal
McCord Stewart Museum
690 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, H3A 1E9
(Quebec)
Kanada
weitere Infos: www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/fr/expositions/bals-costumes/
Caprile Lorenzo
Madrid (E) > 16.10.2024 - 30.03.2025
The Canal Hall of Isabel II hosts the exhibition "Caprile Lorenzo," a journey through the life and work of the dressmaker Lorenzo Caprile, through his most iconic dresses, which have already become History of Fashion. The exhibition starts from the premise of separating the dressmaker from the person in order to understand his trajectory and creations from the beginning, from the essence, from his inspirations, obsessions, influences and passions. It has more than 100 pieces of Haute couture, accompanied by an important selection of works of art by great masters of painting such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Antonio Joli de Dipi, Federico de Madrazo, Erasmus Quellinus, Agustín Esteve or Ramón Casas y Carbó who approach a particular concept of beauty that will allow to better understand his creative impulse, his trajectory in Fashion, and with all this, himself. Its most iconic dresses and creations are presented in an organic way, without attending to a chronological criterion, seeking a constant dialogue between them, outside the category to which they correspond (wedding fashion, performing arts, red carpet, etc.) or the year of its creation, to join in the exhibition space from its inspiring source. Italy, present in its roots, in its soul and in its heart, a constant, fundamental and necessary inspiration to understand its vital and creative universe. The Baroque, that unlimited creativity and the perfect accomplice in his relationship with another of his great passions, the theater. Modists such as Madame Grés, Chanel, Givenchy, Flora Villareal, Perdro Rodriguez, Valentino or Thierry Mugler, great masters of the 20th century who have inevitably influenced their way of feeling and conceiving fashion as an artistic expression. Romanticism, the incessant search for beauty in a permanent evocation of delicacy and elegance in each stitch. Cinema, fascination, glamour, but above all the possibility of telling stories, traveling in time and dreaming through the great divas of the celluloid. Inspirations all of them that have forged the dressmaker that is today, and that have their reflection in a series of works from other creative fields such as painting, decorative arts, photography or elements typical of stage in the performing arts. Haute couture and art that intuitively order the exhibition story. Everything is reflected, hidden, merged, affirmed or contradicted in his work. Caprile is Lorenzo, and Lorenzo is Caprile in every dress.
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Elizabeth II Canal Hall
Calle de Sta Engracia, 125
Chamberí, 28003 Madrid
Spanien
weitere Infos: www.comunidad.madrid/actividades/2024/exposicion-caprile-lorenzo