Star designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney started their careers at the fashion house Chloé – now its founder Gaby Aghion, who died in 2014, is being honored with a major exhibition for the first time.
The show “Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé” can be seen from this Friday until February 18, 2024 at the Jewish Museum in Central Park in New York. Photos, documents and around 150 items of clothing from the fashion company’s 70-year history are on display.
Aghion was born Gabriella Hanoka in 1921 into a Jewish family in Egypt. She later moved to Paris, where she founded Chloé in 1952 – and led the fashion house to global success, primarily by employing designers such as Lagerfeld, McCartney and Gabriela Hearst. “Her work changed the path of the global fashion industry by freeing women’s bodies from the restrictive views and styles of their time,” the museum said.(dpa)