Fashion on the move #3
Palais Galliera, Paris
February 08 – October 12, 2025

Palais Galliera is presenting the third and final part of its “Fashion on the Move” collections exhibition. With more than 180 new items from the museum’s collections on display, the exhibition retraces the history of fashion from the 18th century to the present day, exploring the way in which fashion has adapted to the body in movement. The focus of this installation is winter sports. 

Garments designed for physical activity and sport through the ages are compared with clothes that people wore in everyday life. It is a dialogue that takes in the concept of specialised sportswear, from the adaptation of women’s outfits for sporting activities in the late 19th century to the masculinisation of women’s clothing and the introduction of sportswear in the modern wardrobe. Swimming costumes, cycling outfits and riding habits, motoring coats and accessories, tennis wear and sneakers are just some of the silhouettes used to illustrate three centuries of fashion history.

Fashion on the Move #3 is more than just a chronological review of the history of clothing; it offers insights into how the liberation of the body led to changes in attitudes and standards of beauty. A large section of this last instalment of the exhibition is devoted to winter sports, tracing the emergence of high-altitude resorts and the development of new winter sports such as skiing, tobogganing, ice hockey, ice skating and sledding, as well as the gradual emergence of specially adapted outfits and accessories from specialist equipment manufacturers (including Rossignol, Tunmer and Mavest), fashion houses (including Hermès, Jean Patou and Madeline de Rauch) as well as collaborations between the two. 

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