If you have not already planned one, here’s an excellent reason to arrange a trip to the Ville Lumiére in the next six months. Today they are inaugurating the reopening of the Musée Galliera inside Les Docks, on the Quai d’Austerlitz, the new warehouses along the Seine used as Cité de La Mode et du Design.

For the occasion, the Museum’s artistic director, Olivier Baillard, fascinated by the show “White Drama” by Rei Kawakubo – Comme des Garçons, presented during the Paris spring-summer 2012 collection fashion week last October, has decided to host the great Japanese designer’s entire collection.

From today, 13 April, till 7 October 2012, visitors can admire the structure, designed by Kawakubo himself, containing all this season’s items. We must add that the choice to exhibit such recent material is an absolute world first, as they have only ever held retrospective exhibitions.

As Baillard himself says, about his choice and Kawakubo’s work:

“This fashion show is a tour de force as an immaterial dimension exudes from these fashion architectures and hits the spiritual transporting you into the unclassifiable universe of Rei Kawakubo [...]

This collection is a poetical manifesto going beyond fashion. It is the museum’s role to offer a freeze-frame, slow down time and the tyranny of immediacy. While giving everyone the chance to discover the entire show, it allows us to show people that fashion demands a lot of work, method and requirements, not just time”.

A must opportunity to discover the artistic validity of Rei Kawakubo, recognised as one of the most important, radical creators of modern fashion.

For more about the White Drama collection, please go to the following link

http://radicalfashion.ivomilan.it/it/various/comme-des-garcons-spring-summer-2012/

Practical information

Les Dock – Cité de la Mode et du Design:

34 qui d’Austerlitz

75013 Paris

Tel.: 01 76 77 25 30

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm except public holidays

Entrance ticket:

Full price: € 6

Reduced price: € 4,5

Youth price (14-26): € 3

Free for under 14s

Access:

Metro: Gare d’Austerlitz, Quai de la Gare, Gare de Lyon

Bus: 24, 57, 61, 63, 89, 91