World's most-visited museum, for first time, to display gowns and accessories from fashion houses The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, is for first time displaying haute couture gowns and accessories from fashion houses, including Chanel, Saint Laurent and Dior, next to decorative arts from Ancient Greece to France’s Second Empire. "Paris is the capital of fashion – there is a very strong relationship between the fashion houses and Paris, and the Louvre is in the heart of Paris," Olivier Gabet, director of the museum’s decorative arts department, told Reuters on Friday at the opening of the couture exhibition. A dress designed by John Galliano for fashion house Christian Dior from the Haute Couture F/W 2006-2007 collection A dress designed Thierry Mugler for fashion h...
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