The name ‘Chanel’ is in the title and all-pervasive in the descriptive literature. The inspiration for the art installation is the 50th anniversary of the infamous 2.55 quilted bag, introduced by Mademoiselle Coco in 1955. But people, please…expand those horizons and allow yourself the experience. Enter this exhibit as you would any art space, enjoy it as a sentient being and leave the criticism in the world outside where it belongs.
A few words of advice for those of you who will be visiting the exhibition in other parts of the world–get there early. The free online tickets were gone within 36 hours of posting. I was in line today at 6 a.m. on this last day of the exhibit, and I was not alone. The opening hours had been gratefully extended to accommodate the crowds, however within 15 minutes, all the remaining tickets were gone. To get in, you had to join the stand-by line, which by 8 a. m. numbered in the hundreds, so Moscow, London and Paris: take this as a warning!
Since this exhibition is centered around a handbag and the very definition of Chanel, there was not a hat to be seen. However inspiration is where we find it, and all art infuses the human spirit with multiform colours and ideas that become part of a creative continuum. Hats will come from this exhibit, not to worry. After all, Mademoiselle herself did start as a milliner.
Fabrice Bousteau, the Editor-in-Chief of Beaux-Arts and the curator of this installation, recently said in an interview with Art & Auction: “I don’t think fashion is superficial. It is a representation of our reality. Mobile Art is not an exhibition; it is a kind of miniature world. ”
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