THE FASHION WORLD OF JEAN PAUL GAULTIER IN MONTREAL

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Since The Costume Institute’s Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, popular culture has rediscovered the relationship between fashion design and art. In a stroke of serendipity, this summer the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts pays tribute to another iconic haute couture designer of our time, this one alive and well: The incomparable Jean Paul Gaultier. … More

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CHINA'S TERRACOTTA ARMY AT THE MMFA

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Montreal Buzz visited The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to get an exclulsive look at the uncrating of China’s incredible 2000-year-old Terracotta Army Warriors… … More

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SHOPPING AT MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

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Whether you are in town for a meeting or with your family, friends or loved one, you will find many great holiday gifts ideas at the boutiques of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. There are two shops: M Boutique offers more traditional fares, and Design Space offers the cleanly contemporary. … More

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JEAN PAUL GAULTIER WAS HERE

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Yes, I’m sorry to report that Couture King Jean Paul Gaultier has left the building – that is, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

But don’t fret, fellow fashion fanatics. He’ll be back sooner than you think to launch his retrospective The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, which makes its international debut right here in Montreal before continuing on to Dallas and San Francisco. Mark your calendars now, people: June 17 to October 2, 2011. … More

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DENIS GAGNON SHOWS ALL: FASHION AT THE MUSEUM

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Yesterday, Montreal’s whos’who of art and fashion gathered at the Montreal Fine Art Museum for the opening of DENIS GAGNON SHOWS ALL, a contemporary art installation about Montreal’s edgiest fashion designer: Denis Gagnon.

The installation, which takes up a single, large room featuring a giant inverted pyramid hanging from the ceiling, was built in collaboration with architect Gilles Saucier and photographer Martin Laporte. It is an invitation to explore the sinews of Gagnon’s creative mind. We asked Denis Gagnon, Gilles Saucier and Museum Director Nathalie Bondil to explain some of the ideas behind this daring new exhibit. Following, the 1963 Pierre Cardin and 2009 Yves St-Laurent exhibitions, it is only the third time that Montreal’s Fine Art Museum features a fashion designer within its walls.

The exhibit is free and held until february 13th, 2011.

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