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Gaby Aghion, the founder and innovative entrepreneur behind French fashion house Chloé, is being honored in the first museum exhibition dedicated to her legacy, Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé, at The Jewish Museum in New York. Having the foresight to free up the constraints of haute couture after WWII, Aghion, who died in 2014, changed the business of fashion by pioneering the new category of luxury ready-to-wear and recognizing design talent like Karl Lagerfeld, whom Aghion first hired in 1964. Lagerfeld was succeeded as creative director by an incredible stream of visionary designers including Martine Sitbon, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, and Gabriela Hearst, who all, in their own ways, kept Aghion’s singular ethos alive for 70 years, as displayed by this exhibit’s 50 iterations of the iconic Chloé blouse from across the brand’s history…from October 13, 2023 to February 18, 2024, at The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue, New York. 

 

Spring–summer 1960 fashion show at Brasserie Lipp, November 25, 1959, at 9:45 a.m. Courtesy Chloé Archive, Paris.
Autumn–winter 1958 fashion show at Brasserie Lipp. Courtesy Chloé Archive, Paris.
Blouse designed by Karl Lagerfeld, ca. 1970–80. © Chloé Archive, Paris. Photo by Julien T. Hamon. Courtesy the Jewish Museum, NY.
Dress designed by Clare Waight Keller, spring–summer 2016, chiffon. © Chloé Archive, Paris. Photo by Julien T. Hamon. Courtesy the Jewish Museum, NY.
Dress designed by Phoebe Philo, autumn–winter 2004, chiffon. © Chloé Archive, Paris. Photo by Julien T. Hamon. Courtesy the Jewish Museum, NY.