Impressionist passion for fashion show in Paris

  One can almost hear the rustle of clothes as you walk by: examines a large living room in Paris, Tuesday, as the Impressionists captured the dawn of modern fashion in the late 19th Century.

More than 70 masterpieces of Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas at the show go for four months in the Musée d'Orsay, in addition to some 40 suits from 1860 to 1885, all the clothes and whistles corset sizes.

"The Impressionists were fascinated by modernity, as fashion was in full swing with the arrival of magazines and department stores," said Gloria Groom of the Art Institute of Chicago, which was co-curator of the exposition.

"The study saw their portraits of women, I painted them the same clothes that you find in today's sketchbooks fashion of the time," she told AFP in an interview with French.

In some work clothes most important topic, like pale pink dress that art the light of Manet 1866 "Woman with a Parrot", a move from a series of works on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of New York's.

Groom went digging through the archives of the Musée Galliera in Paris for fashion clothing to reflect the works, the return to the show.

She was born with Canadian opera director Robert Carsen, who worked the exhibition designed as fashion, aligning images after the other between the rows of red chairs and gold, as if on display in a living room of a plush.

The 1870s saw the return of the agitation in Europe, with a complete, low-cut chest and waist tightly laced offset to a sinuous S-shaped silhouette.

Albert Bartholomew is an excellent example in his painting "The Greenhouse", which shows his wife was discovered in a white coat and striped - the cinched waist in a circle small eye watering.

Manet "Parisienne" wore a long black coat, gathered his path slightly to reveal a small chest.

In "Nana", now he explores the world of lingerie, corsets model its blue satin heels and a skirt very well refusal art fair in Paris win in 1977 in the interest of public morals.

Running in Paris until 20 January, the exhibition will travel to New York, MMA of 19 February to 27 May and the Chicago Art Institute, 29 June to 22 September.