As Paris gears up to host the @paris2024 Olympic Games next year, a new exhibition at the @madparis highlights the relationship between sporting competition and clothes.

“Fashion and Sport, From One Podium to the Other,” set to run from Wednesday until April 7, opens with no clothing at all. An Ancient Greek statue of a discus thrower underlines the fact that Olympic athletes used to compete naked, a fact reflected in vintage posters for the Games in Stockholm in 1912 and Paris in 1924.

The show offers fascinating insight into the changing social mores that saw women trading corsets for Lycra bodysuits, as comfort became the dominant factor in how people dress — a theme that dovetails with another Paris exhibition currently on show at the Palais Galliera museum, titled “Fashion in Motion.”

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Report: @jdiderich
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