Fashion Capitals

Fashion today is created and shown in cities from New York to Shanghai. Yet Paris is still widely regarded as “the most glamorous and competitive of the world’s fashion capitals.” Certainly, Paris has played a very important, perhaps unique, role in the history of fashion. But Paris has also been mythologized. Paris, Capital of Fashion is the first exhibition to explore the cultural construction of Paris as the international capital of fashion. The introductory gallery places Paris within a global context, in dialogue with other fashion capitals, such as New York City.