The Palais Galliera is teaming up with the Petit Palais to present an exceptional exhibition dedicated to the house of Worth. Founder of a house that has become an absolute symbol of Parisian luxury, Charles Frederick Worth (1825 - 1895), born in England, is a key figure in the history of fashion. At the origin of haute couture, Worth founded the eponymous house at 7 Rue de la Paix, whose history spans four generations and nearly a century. Presented over 1100 square meters in the large galleries of the Petit Palais, this retrospective, which brings together more than 400 works - clothing, objects and accessories, paintings, graphic arts - is presented as a vast fresco revisiting the creations of the house of Worth as much as the protagonists who wrote its history. It promises to be extraordinary, given the rarity and number of pieces presented from prestigious international collections. From the Second Empire to the Roaring Twenties, a page of history was written: that of the invention of the figure of the great couturier and the mechanisms of creation and marketing of fashion still in force, and of which Worth laid the foundations at the end of the 19th century.
