Over the past 10 years, the Fashion Museum has not only presented 16 exhibitions dedicated to fashion and its history, but has also diligently built and expanded its collection. A small part of it will be on display in the new exhibition, an idea that came to museum’s Director Natalia Muzychkina several years ago: “We wanted to create a special exhibition for the 10th anniversary. And what could be more appealing than chic outfits that once belonged to celebrities? We are delighted to share the beauty that has been quietly awaiting its moment in the spotlight in our collection’s storage.”

The exhibition features outfits worn by singers, actresses, and other influential figures, as well as costumes from films and TV series. Fans of the ‘Downton Abbey’ series are sure to be particularly delighted, as the exhibition features the costume of the screen heroine Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, worn by the outstanding British actress Maggie Smith. Music lovers, meanwhile, will surely be delighted by the outfit of musician, actress, and style icon Marianne Faithfull. Fashion connoisseurs will appreciate the outfit designed by Jean Paul Gaultier, which once belonged to Lady Romilly McAlpine, the most extravagant fashionista of British high society, as well as the bright red, stunningly elegant Thierry Mugler vintage suit, which Kim Kardashian wore in a photo and video shoot directed by Mugler himself for the ‘7 Hollywood’ magazine. Meanwhile, a beautiful silk taffeta dress with flowers was once part of Madonna’s film costume wardrobe while filming the movie “Evita.”

The exhibition is also special in that it gives equal prominence to both the costumes on display in the showcases and the life stories of the people who once wore them. Through these garments, we can get a little closer to the people we have seen on screens, on television, in newspapers, and in books.

The exhibition ‘Celebrities’ Outfits’ features items from the Fashion Museum’s collection, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the present day. As in other exhibitions, visitors have the opportunity to try on replica outfits—extravagant garments worthy of a celebrity photo shoot.

Over the past 10 years, the Fashion Museum has not only presented 16 exhibitions dedicated to fashion and its history, but has also diligently built and expanded its collection. A small part of it will be on display in the new exhibition, an idea that came to museum’s Director Natalia Muzychkina several years ago: “We wanted to create a special exhibition for the 10th anniversary. And what could be more appealing than chic outfits that once belonged to celebrities? We are delighted to share the beauty that has been quietly awaiting its moment in the spotlight in our collection’s storage.”

The exhibition features outfits worn by singers, actresses, and other influential figures, as well as costumes from films and TV series. Fans of the ‘Downton Abbey’ series are sure to be particularly delighted, as the exhibition features the costume of the screen heroine Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, worn by the outstanding British actress Maggie Smith. Music lovers, meanwhile, will surely be delighted by the outfit of musician, actress, and style icon Marianne Faithfull. Fashion connoisseurs will appreciate the outfit designed by Jean Paul Gaultier, which once belonged to Lady Romilly McAlpine, the most extravagant fashionista of British high society, as well as the bright red, stunningly elegant Thierry Mugler vintage suit, which Kim Kardashian wore in a photo and video shoot directed by Mugler himself for the ‘7 Hollywood’ magazine. Meanwhile, a beautiful silk taffeta dress with flowers was once part of Madonna’s film costume wardrobe while filming the movie “Evita.”

The exhibition is also special in that it gives equal prominence to both the costumes on display in the showcases and the life stories of the people who once wore them. Through these garments, we can get a little closer to the people we have seen on screens, on television, in newspapers, and in books.

The exhibition ‘Celebrities’ Outfits’ features items from the Fashion Museum’s collection, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the present day. As in other exhibitions, visitors have the opportunity to try on replica outfits—extravagant garments worthy of a celebrity photo shoot.

The boudoir is at the heart of the exhibition’s title for good reason. In the mid-18th century, influenced by the playful Rococo style and the ideas of the Enlightenment, the first room without any specific practical functions was created, intended solely for women, their solitude and comfort. The boudoir was usually located next to the bedroom and was mostly a private salon for wealthy ladies, where they could receive their closest guests, as well as relax, do handicrafts, read or write letters.

With the development of private spaces such as boudoirs, a whole range of sophisticated homewear was created, complemented by elegant indoor footwear. The boudoir was an intimate space where a woman could stay while partially dressed, in a negligee or homewear. These different degrees of intimacy can also be seen and appreciated in the exhibition.

In a broader sense, the exhibition is dedicated to the connection between fashion and the body and privacy – and how the boundaries between the secret, the unseen and the visible have changed over time.

The exhibition features costumes, underwear, corsets, petticoats, and accessories from the collection of the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation and the Fashion Museum. The exhibition covers the period from the early 19th century to the present day.

The boudoir is at the heart of the exhibition’s title for good reason. In the mid-18th century, influenced by the playful Rococo style and the ideas of the Enlightenment, the first room without any specific practical functions was created, intended solely for women, their solitude and comfort. The boudoir was usually located next to the bedroom and was mostly a private salon for wealthy ladies, where they could receive their closest guests, as well as relax, do handicrafts, read or write letters.

With the development of private spaces such as boudoirs, a whole range of sophisticated homewear was created, complemented by elegant indoor footwear. The boudoir was an intimate space where a woman could stay while partially dressed, in a negligee or homewear. These different degrees of intimacy can also be seen and appreciated in the exhibition.

In a broader sense, the exhibition is dedicated to the connection between fashion and the body and privacy – and how the boundaries between the secret, the unseen and the visible have changed over time.

The exhibition features costumes, underwear, corsets, petticoats, and accessories from the collection of the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation and the Fashion Museum. The exhibition covers the period from the early 19th century to the present day.

Art Deco combined seemingly disparate currents and sources of inspiration, including modern art movements, especially Cubism and Suprematism, and later Expressionism, as well as an interest in the exotic, including ancient Egypt, Japan, China and Central America. It was also a desire to recover from the chaos of wartime, striving for symmetry, stability, luxury and an atmosphere of eternal party. Industrial and technical developments also played a huge role, making cool, metallic gloss, fast cars popular, and new types of buildings striving for greater functionality.

Unlike the previous great movement in design and art, Art Nouveau, Art Deco was inspired not so much by nature as by the man-made environment – the modern metropolis, speed and technology. The sinuous lines of Art Nouveau were replaced by angular shapes and elegant geometry borrowed from Cubism, while the melancholic atmosphere of the early 1900s was replaced by an almost frenetic buzz, manifested in everything from the syncopated rhythms of jazz music to the ever newer and faster vehicles on the streets – and in the sky.

One of the biggest changes in the war and post-war period was for women – and this was reflected in fashion. A whole new type of woman now inhabited the big cities: with short hair, tunic dresses that shocked the older generation, elegant silk stockings and shoes that could finally be shown to everyone, with a little bell-shaped hat pulled low over her eyes, she hurried off to work, study, a date in a trendy café or an evening of jazz. No longer wearing corsets and dresses that required a maid’s help to fasten and unfasten, this woman could simply pull a 1920s dress over her head, even one designed for the evening. And, unlike the dresses of the previous period, one could move freely in them.

The exhibition features costumes and accessories by outstanding couturiers and fashion history classics – Paul Poiret, Raoul Dufy, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Jean Patou, and Jeanne Lanvin – from the collection of the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation, the collection of the Fashion Museum, and the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation.