A century removed, the latest exhibit at Paris‘ @petitpalais_musee sets out to reflect on “Modern Paris, 1905–1925” through the city’s growth as a cultural hub during those years. Opened Tuesday and set to run through April 14, the expansive exhibit explores the two decades from the Belle Époque to the Roaring ’20s, bifurcated by World War I.

It touches on all mediums of art from fashion to photography, painting to first forays into filmmaking, architecture, and furniture design interspersed with a sobering dose of realism placing the works in the context of conflict.

“It was important to include fashion because sometimes we don’t think of it, but it shows the moving of society,” chief heritage curator and head curator Juliette Singer told WWD.

Paul Poiret came into play with his corset-less shapes and dresses which gave women a newfound freedom of movement. The designer opened his own fashion house in 1903, alongside his own Maison Martine, which focused on decorative objects from young apprentices.

Jeanne Lanvin, who designed from a “very feminine point of view,” Singer said, also pushed the boundaries in female empowerment

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