Art history and haute couture are united in a spell-binding showcase that forms a fashion trail through the Musée du Louvre’s Department of Decorative Arts. ByLee Sharrock , Contributor.

Execution and vision are the bedrock of haute couture, which represents the industry’s very pinnacle of craft and making, a rarefied art form, undertaken entirely by the hand of the couture atelier ...

“The Louvre is so much more than just the ‘Mona Lisa’,” Olivier Gabet, the museum’s director of art objects as well ...