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November 12, 2007 10:00 am
In France, the Roaring Twenties are known as “les annees folles” (the crazy years). The decade is currently the subject of fascination for Parisians, whose city was arguably the epicenter of the Jazz Age and certainly a home-away-from-home for the era’s most famous literary figures (Ernest Hemingway, Scott and Zelda, etc). The French capital is hosting a plethora of 1920’s-themed exhibits and screenings over the next few months, the best of which we’re highlighting here.
The Musée de la Mode (www.galliera.paris.fr) has assembled over 170 frocks and 200 accessories from designers such as Poiret, Lanvin, Worth, Chanel, and Vionnet for “Les Années Folles: 1919-1929.”
Baccarat is displaying its finest pieces from the 1920’s, including perfume flagons and delicately sculpted animals, at the Baccarat Museum (www.baccarat.com).
The Goethe Institute (www.goethe.de) will be showing four films on four nights November 20 through 29, on the theme of “Portraits of Women: Four German Filmmakers in the 1920s.”
Not to be out done, the Cinema Français will be showing 30 films from the 1920’s, February 8 through 24 at the Musée d’Orsay’s cinema (www.musee-dorsay.fr).
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