C'est Chic! Impressionism taken by the wayside as plant starts Paris Fashion Week

Paris fashion week opens soon in style, with an exhibition of the Impressionists on the road - literally. The exhibition "Impressionism and Fashion" opens Tuesday at the bottom of the Musée d'Orsay, and examines how the end of the 19th Century Impressionist Paris Fashion conducted a large painting subjects. The exhibition moves to the Metropolitan in New York in February. It is known that the Impressionists such as Renoir, Degas and Monet, attempts to capture moments of transition or "impressions" through painting. Less well known is that the dramatic changes in the Parisian fashion of the 1860s played in the Impressionist hands. Rigid hoop skirts - the spread of metallic cages under skirts - were abandoned in favor of more fluid silhouette with layers of different materials and light textures. "The Impressionists used these new modes of capture glimpses of modern life," said co-curator Philippe Thiebaut. "Not only do they live, women moved from today, but also the fashion trends themselves were changed. Impressionists It was the ultimate." In fact, the woman in a fluid, textured black dress Edouard Manet in 1975 masterpiece "La Parisienne" seems blurred almost as real and realistic that many of the 60 dresses that the actual exposure. "We wanted the realism and modern impressionists show all modes," said Robert Carsen, the famous Canadian designer who conceived the exhibition. The colorful and varied collection has about 80 oil paintings, which are spread over nine halls of the museum, and a turn-of-the-century train station rebuilt. Original home of the station was opened for this exhibition for the first time in the history of the museum. In a spectacular performance in two rooms Carsen has new modern tracks - with a little touch of artistic freedom. Instead of models on the catwalk in the mirror hang oil paintings by masters such as Manet and Monet. "I wanted to combine the mode so fashionable today. Little has changed in some respects. I discovered that the same chairs in Paris gateways that we see today are, in Impressionist paintings." With perfect attention to detail, all the chairs are adequately described in the atmosphere of the time. Each seat has a figure of the 19th Century, as the poet Charles Baudelaire. "This is more than a century," said Carsen. "But some things never change. We're obsessed with fashion, now that we were then."