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The Parisian fashion museum celebrates Frida Kahlo through a collection of objects that explain how the famous Mexican artist built a colorful and powerful image that has influenced and continues to inspire contemporary designers.
The Palais Galliera, fashion museum in Paris, tells the life of Frida Kahlo, from her childhood when she contracted polio or the serious traffic accident that fractured her spine and forced her to a life of pain. But also, Frida’s creative force and her affirmation of her “Mexicanity” through the style of dress that she adopted.
The first part of the exhibition presents a collection of garments that belonged to her: Tehuana dresses, traditional huipiles, pre-Columbian necklaces and earrings, hair clips, as well as a series of orthopedic corsets and even a prosthesis that Frida Kahlo used on her right leg. . One of her most moving objects is a plaster corset that supported her spine and that Frida painted to make it her own.
“It is one of the most moving pieces and at the same time it is an act of rebellion. Frida needed these corsets for medical support; but when she painted them she turned them into true works of art, ”explained one of the curators of the exhibition, the Mexican Circe Henestrosa.
“Frida is infinite”
Frida Kahlo understood that each accessory was part of her figure, so everything that surrounded or used it had to participate in the affirmation of her creative personality. Polio caused her right leg to be thinner than her left; This motivated her to wear traditional long dresses and skirts, loaded with flowers or geometric motifs. That baroque and exotic style, as well as her paintings, made her unique.
The exhibition highlights how the figure of Frida Kahlo was an inspiration for the most renowned stylists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the second part of the exhibition, pieces from haute couture houses such as Givenchy, Dior or Chanel are shown, in which Kahlo’s contribution is evident.
“There is an interpretation of the corset in fashion that we owe to Frida. Although the corset has had many interpretations since the 17th century, she turned it into a garment and made it a part of her person. There are stylists who have been inspired by Frida; others have taken it as a fundamental axis to make an entire collection. This was the case in 1998 for Jean-Paul Gaultier, or more recently Ricardo Tisci for Givenchy. Others have been based on elements such as embroidery, flowers, color. Frida Kahlo is infinite”, expressed the director of the Palais Galliera, Miren Arzalluz.
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