Panasonic Museum of Art 20th Anniversary Exhibition "Costume Jewelry: Beauty Revolutionaries Chanel, Schiaparelli, Dior Chisako Kotaki Collection"

At the beginning of the 20th century, Paul Poiret pioneered costume jewelry and was widely popularized by Chanel. Freed from preconceived notions of materials such as gems and precious metals, it became an integral part of the Parisian fashion world due to its excellent design and the charm of its combination with clothing, and eventually made its way to the United States. This is the first exhibition in Japan to comprehensively introduce the development of costume jewelry. In addition to works created for haute couture collections such as Dior and Schiaparelli, necklaces and brooches with excellent techniques by jewelry workshops commissioned by those brands, original masterpieces by Lean Vautran and Coppola e Toppo, and represented by Miriam Haskell and Trifari, American costume jewelry is supported by a wide range of people. We will introduce these through more than 400 examples selected from the best collection in Japan, and explore the stylistic beauty created by each designer gaining freedom of materials.