Olivier Saillard

Olivier Saillardis currently director of Galliera, the Paris Museum of Fashion. A renowned fashion historian, he has been the curator of many successful exhibitions such as the one dedicated to Madame Gres, performingCouture at the Musee Bourdelle, Christian Lacroix, Fashion Stories at the Art Deco Museum, Yohji Yamamoto, Just Garments(Art Deco), Sonia Rykiel(Art Deco), Superstar Designers(Art Deco), Andy Warhol and Fashion(Museum of Fashion, Marseille) among others. He publishedA History of the Bathing suit(Editions Duchene) and more recentlyAn Ideal History of Contemporary Fashion(Editions Textuel) in which he gathered and analyzed the most important fashion shows from 1970 to today. Furthermore, Olivier Saillard has been the graduated guest of the Villa Kujuyama in Japan. He is completing poetic work in the form of performances at every Haute Couture fashion week that present the garment, as the main topic of a sensitive and reflective work. - See more at: http: //www.accdistribution.com/us/store/pv/9789491376276/madame-gres/olivier-saillard?layout=popup#sthash.P2a9UlY1.dpuf