iMAD - Musée des Arts DécoratifsLouvre
First French showing of Brazilian fashion photographer Rafael Pavarotti, with over 200 prints shown alongside museum photographs.
Anok Yai poses in the Douche dress Karl Lagerfeld designed for Chloé in 1983, shot for Vogue US in May 2023. Time Out describes the whole show the same way: sculptural bodies, spectacular drapery and saturated backdrops, "a big chromatic theatre".
This is the Brazilian photographer's first show in France: more than 200 prints, from magazine covers to portraits of Rihanna, Harry Styles and Beyoncé and campaigns for Dior and Balmain. You walk past sketchbooks, magazines and outfits on mannequins, and his pictures hang beside the museum's own photographs, from Donyale Luna to Naomi Campbell. The last section, "An Altar to Memory", brings together Yoruba deities, the Tupi people and Afro-Brazilian spirits, drawn from his Amazonian roots.
Time Out gave it five stars and said you leave with happy eyes and a few questions. Unidivers asked one: how a message of more inclusive fashion sits with H&M as the main patron. Entry is the €18 exhibitions ticket, and under 18s are free.
Anok Yai in the Douche dress
Look for the model in Chloé's 1983 Douche dress by Karl Lagerfeld, shot for the May 2023 Vogue US.
Dior with Amoako Boafo
Jeremiah Berko Fordjour photographed for Dior's spring-summer 2021 collection alongside the Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo.
"As the world turns"
The February 2022 British Vogue cover, a group portrait of Black models side by side.
An Altar to Memory
The closing section, a photographic altar where Yoruba deities, the Tupi people and Afro-Brazilian spirits meet.
Under 18s are free. 11 to 14-year-olds can book Fashion Studio, a two-day holiday course built around this show and LOOK !