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Canonization
Costume for a fashion show, Musée de Cluny, Paris, 2024
- Role
- Design, weaving, making
- Technique
- Nylon warp and brass weft
- Materials
- Silk organza; nylon and brass thread
- Format
- Fashion show costume (gown)
- Context
- Fashion show, Musée de Cluny, Paris, 26–27 May 2024
- Year
- 2024
- Reference
- Barthélemy d’Eyck, Annunciation triptych, 1443–1445
In black and white
Background
Created for a fashion show at the Musée de Cluny, Paris, the costume was then displayed in the exhibition Les arts en France sous Charles VII.
Its design draws on Barthélemy d’Eyck’s Annunciation triptych (1443–1445).
Materials
A silk organza gown, with silver-grey woven elements in nylon and brass thread.
At the Musée de Cluny
Material
Woven nylon and brass thread — look through the thread counter
Inspirations
A poem
Joan of Arc leads her people toward the truth,
Determined, fighting with strength and dignity.
Through her duty and her deeds she shines.
Unbelieved, she ends up fading into the dark.
Beneath her heavy silver armour,
Her will and resolve become fragilities.
Only after her unjust death
Does the Maid become sacred.
Like the painted angels,
Between elevation and divine light, a saint.
Bound in certain ways to the Annunciation,
Her canonisation recognises her divine mission,
Mary and Joan of Arc, both committed to a sacred mission.