The Louvre’s first vogue exhibition — titled “Louvre Couture: Artwork and Style — Assertion Items” and on show via July 21 — highlights the truth that museums make marvelous temper boards, and supply inspiration galore.
To wit: WWD Weekend requested an array of designers in the course of the latest menswear and couture reveals in Europe to call their favourite museum on this planet, revealing a mixture of well-known establishments and lots of lesser-known gems:
Giorgio Armani
“There are two locations that maintain a particular place in my coronary heart. One is in my hometown of Milan. It’s the Pinacoteca di Brera, constructed by Piermarini and situated within the Palazzo di Brera, that additionally hosts the Botanical Backyard, the Astronomical Observatory and the Academy of Nice Arts. It’s house to masterpieces by nice painters reminiscent of Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Raffaello, Mantegna and Piero della Francesca, in addition to Hayez’s iconic ‘The Kiss.’ The Pinacoteca and its treasures are my neighbors in an space that preserves the mix of aristocratic magnificence and widespread appeal that’s considered one of Milan’s most enchanting qualities.
The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, Italy.
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“One other museum I like very a lot is 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo, envisioned by Issey Miyake and designed by Tadao Ando, the architect behind my Armani Teatro. I’m fascinated by the structure of the museum, which is nestled right into a wedge of earth, giving it a novel and putting character. It additionally hosts extraordinary design and artwork exhibitions, the type that solely the Japanese can provide you with.”
Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior
“My favourite museum is the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna in Rome. I bear in mind I used to go there after faculty and I used to be so fascinated by the museum’s iconic director Palma Bucarelli. My different favourite is the Brooklyn Museum in New York. It has been a formative place in my grownup life and it continues to be.”
Anthony Vaccarello, Saint Laurent
“The MoMA in New York, as a result of each time I’m going there, I’m at all times impressed by the exhibitions. In Paris, we’ve got superb museums, however by some means I hardly ever go to them as a result of it’s my metropolis. In New York it’s a method to turn into extra conscious of tradition and exhibitions that I ought to see.”
Tate Trendy, London, England.
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Rick Owens
“Tate Trendy, for the proportions of the rooms, the dimensions of the rooms, the supplies, the best way it was up to date and modernized. I like the trendy industrial proportions.”
Giambattista Valli
“I can not determine between The Calico Museum of Textiles in Ahmedabad and Palazzo Massimo, The Nationwide Roman Museum. In my head, there’s a fixed dialog between the 2.
Peter Copping, Lanvin
“The V&A nonetheless does it for me each time. I used to be there not so way back, and went via the plaster room and the British rooms. You realize, the very first thing you see if you go in is the Henry VIII writing casket. So it doesn’t get rather more superb with that.”
Alexandre Mattuissi, Ami Paris
“The Dia Beacon. It’s so massive, so quiet. It’s like two hours from New York by practice. You arrive on this little village, you stroll slightly bit and also you alight on this museum, which is so massive. I’ve been there two or thrice, and each time I’m practically alone within the museum.”
Works by Richard Serra at Dia:Beacon.
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Brunello Cucinelli
“There is no such thing as a doubt in regards to the magnificence and uniqueness of the Louvre or the Uffizi however given my training and my affection for the traditional Greek tradition, I’d say the Nationwide Museum in Athens.”
Alessandro Sartori, Zegna
“The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid for Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica.’”
Norbert Stumpfl, Brioni
“The one I really like probably the most is the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. It’s a museum which may be very trendy with Roman, Greek and Egyptian antiquities. The museum is subsequent to Piazza Navona in a Fifteenth-century palazzo. The rooms should not crowded and there are hardly any vacationers who go there. An actual gem in Rome.”
Kim Jones
“I’d need to be biased and say The Charleston Belief, as a result of I’m the vice chairman — after all. It’s a spot of fixed inspiration for me. My entire assortment will go there and I’ll construct the Virginia Woolf Library there as properly. I’ve been doing issues with Sotheby’s, with Bloomsbury as properly. It’s serving to discover items for the belief that they’re on the lookout for. Issues come out of the woodwork in case you discuss it and present it, so it helps.”
Adeju Thompson, Lagos Area Programme
“I’d say my favourite museum might be the V&A, as a result of clearly I’m actually into ornamental arts. But in addition the Museum of Ornamental Arts right here in Paris, I used to be actually obsessive about this. I really like areas the place I can research the craftsmanship of garments, issues from the 18th century [and] nineteenth century. That actually informs me. André Leon Talley talked about this concept of exposing your self to issues that you just admire, and constructing a vocabulary from that, so I like to go to plenty of ornamental museums which have plenty of furnishings, textiles, work, simply craftsmanship. I at all times discover myself going to those types of museums, however any museum actually to have a look at artwork, modern artwork. I’m usually simply hungry to absorb lovely issues.”
Leeum Samsung Museum of Artwork.
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Jung Wook-jun, Juun.J
He names Leeum Samsung Museum of Artwork as his favourite. Consisting of two elements, one devoted to conventional Korean artwork and the opposite to modern artwork, it’s situated within the Hannam-dong space of Seoul. “It’s so poetic,” he provides.
