THE CLOAKROOM
OF DESTINIES
2026 September-October
Places :
On hold
Exhibition curators:
Sabine Feliciano
Olivia Ferrand
Sponsor of the event:
Nathalie Chaize
At the heart of creative matter
The ‘Le vestiaire des destinées’ exhibition was born
out of the desire for colour, beauty, freedom and a unique creative adventure, which is the constant driving force behind the group of passionate art explorers and passers-by who have come together at l'association Mirabilia Lyon.
The costume we wear is always an important element in our relationship with others. It is a sign of belonging, to a community, a region, a civilisation, a tribe,
a religion. It can become a collective artistic expression, when it appears as part of a carnival procession, a festive community or an atypical group.
But in the ‘Vestiaire des destinées’, artistic expression is a purely individual release of the imagination, with no social constraints. It is a personal and unique plastic adventure, in which the inner truth specific to each of the artists is exteriorised in a bodily envelope, born of the very intimacy of his or her sensitive and spiritual experience.
The artist can then become an archaeologist of the fabric, rewriting the history of a material rich in past lives.
In this exhibition, this personal liberation, this extraction of the spirit from the textile, is only possible through the prior perfect mastery of a material and a know-how.
And it's from this miraculously fertile encounter between felt thought and inert matter that the surprising beauty and shareable gaiety of these extraordinary and timeless costumes are born, sublime illustrations of the free and celestial destiny offered to each and every one of us.
Françoise Souchaud
Founder and President Mirabilia Lyon
Artistes + Étudiants
Anne Guerrant
Angelica Zabaleta Mabolo
Benoit Huot
Charlotte Limonne
Christine Fayon
Emmanuelle Sage Lenoir
Eric Chambon
Evelyne Postic
Françoise Hoffmann
Hélène Bret
Hélène Jospé
Laurence Font
Laurence Oppermann
Marie Pourchot
Marion Oster
Marion Hawecker / Lucie Amiot
Mona Luison
Mongi Guibane
Nathalie Faton et Jean-Paul Fermet
Odile Mandrette
Olivia Ferrand / Cindy Larrat
Rasa Vilkinskai
Rose Pélagie de Matteis-Kouadio
Sabine Feliciano
Sara Brita Salamone
Sophie Guyot
Tiphaine Misstif
Tina Marais
Véronique Guicheret
Xavier Brisoux
- Lycée Adrien Testud - Chambon Feugerolles
- Lycée Joseph Marie Jacquard - Oullins
- ENSATT Lyon
CURATORS OF THE EXHIBITION
“Nothing is more human than clothing, nothing more important than what we would have us believe is futile.
We inhabit it; it keeps the memory of our body like the fingers of the one, or more often, the one, who sewed it. It allows us to show ourselves and draws us into dreams of metamorphosis.
Close to our skin, it is, like speech, a bridge between the inside and the outside. It is a language that has its commonplaces and its fabric poems of which the wardrobe of Destinies would be a collection.
Olivia Ferrand
Textile artist
"Clothes don't make the man. But they do give you more confidence. This remains to be confirmed, but the way we dress influences our behavior. Moreover, costumes have an impact on our way of thinking, a mode of escape.
Like language, clothing fascinates both by its universality and by the extreme diversity of forms it can take from one society to another. Its importance is confirmed by the interest that historians, folklorists, ethnologists, sociologists, and technologists have long shown in it, as well as by one of the most extensive bibliographies in existence: costumes.
Let's take the time to mix all these areas into a dynamic that would lead us for a few moments to a state of emotional trans, a Locker Room where the imagination is limitless."
Sabine Feliciano
Textile artist
EXHIBITION SPONSOR
Nathalie Chaize
Committed fashion designer and woman of heart who designs feminine collections.
nathaliechaize.fr
The important thing is not the goal, but the path.
The fashion I propose is above all an encounter. My childhood in Africa, and my many travels have shaped my vision and drawn this inalienable taste for colors, lights, the female body. Subsequently, training at the School of Architecture gave me this taste for the work of the line, that of curves and the sense of purity. My vision of fashion is a point of balance between these different experiences.
© Aline Périer
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