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The exhibition is housed in the Palais de Tokyo in the Saut du Loup gallery.
The long space is punctuated by photographs, an archive wall and 12 cabinets that tell a story of themes that spring from the archive
The exhibition opens with a series of photographs
Chloé as we have seen it through fashion magazines and the media, photographed by photographers such as Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton.
The 30 meter neon light, is designed to remind us of the late art deco building, the exhibition is housed within.
The photographic exhibition ends with the Claire Waight Keller's 2012 collection, bringing us into the present, and that’s where the cabinets start.
The mannequin wigs complement each theme.
The art deco theme finds its way into the exhibition again, as tumbling blocks, on wigs, as a marquetry floor, and as an abstracted palm on the back of the cabinet.
Egyptomania that was so common within art deco styles, reminds us also of Gaby's birthplace Egypt.
Each cabinet picked up on a theme that has been inspired by the drawings within the archive, or a dress, or a sleeve, or a detail,
a peacock that becomes the back of a cabinet is to be found in a cutting on a drawing by Karl Lagerfeld.
A pincushion bracelet from a catwalk picture.
A banana that has been taken from the invitations to Phoebe Philo's collection, finds its way into a cabinet, reminiscent of Giorgio de Chirico ‘The Uncertainty of a Poet'. And so is then coupled with classical garments.
The tiled floor, taken from the walls of Brasserie Lipp where Gaby Aghion staged some of her earliest shows becomes a backdrop for a floral theme.
Dresses from the archive across time are decorated with flowers
Chloé's famous diaphanous dresses, find a home on a floor decorated with bows, emphasizing the femininity associated with Chloé.
The archive wall chooses dresses as a typology, and shows all the games played with dresses across 60 years, full of artistic references that can be found in the drawings beneath them.
Each of the Chloé ad campaigns has girls conspiring, whispering, chatting, and the mannequins have been joined, not holding hands but literally platted together or knotted together through their hairstyles.