Fashion as a Palimpsest: 1950-2010

2 Boulevard Pierre de Coubertin Nevers

Born from a collaboration between the Maison de la Culture de Nevers and the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, this exhibition offers an interpretation of fashion photography as a surface of permanent rewriting, like a palimpsest, that parchment on which inscriptions are scraped off in order to write again. From Jean Moral to Kate Barry, via Peter Knapp, Jean-François Bauret and Sacha, five perspectives from the Museum's collections form a layered narrative. Jean Moral moves fashion into the street and invents a embodied modernity; Peter Knapp renews it radically…