Anatomy of a Collection: Clothes you should know about

Around a hundred garments and accessories worn by celebrities and everyday people will go on show at the City of Paris fashion museum, Palais Galliera, from May 14. Here’s a Jean Paul Gaultier, Bombshell Breasts dress from the autumn/winter 1984-1985, Barbès collection. (AFP)

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Around a hundred garments and accessories worn by celebrities and everyday people will go on show at the City of Paris fashion museum, Palais Galliera, from May 14. Here’s a Jean Paul Gaultier, Bombshell Breasts dress from the autumn/winter 1984-1985, Barbès collection. (AFP)

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Balenciaga, a dress worn by the Princess of Réthy, summer 1968. (AFP)

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Men’s waistcoat belonging to Claude-Lamoral II, Prince of Ligne and the Holy Empire (1685-1766), circa 1750. It has a brocaded liseré gros de Tours, blue silk, polychrome silk thread, gilded silver thread and woven design for a waistcoat. (AFP)

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Coat, waistcoat and trousers worn by Louis XVII, Louis Charles de France, Duke of Normandy (1785–1795), circa 1792. It is beige and brown striped cotton with wWooden buttons covered with fabric. (AFP)

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Christian Dior by Marc Bohan, day dress worn by the Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986), 1972. (AFP)

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Dress worn by Empress Josephine (1763-1814), circa 1805. (AFP)

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Convict laborer’s uniform jacket, circa 1820-1850. (AFP)

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Dresses worn by Madame Gachet for her marriage to Doctor Gachet, 1868. (AFP)

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H. J. Nicoll (London and Paris), riding jacket worn by Cléo de Mérode (Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode, 1875-1966), circa 1896-1898. (AFP)

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Redfern evening cape, circa 1900-1905, and Vaginay T-bar shoes, circa 1925, worn by Anna Gould (Countess Boni de Castellane, 1875-1961). Cape: champagne wool twill and champagne silk tulle with champagne silk embroidery. Shoes: cream damask silk with gold and blue silk embroidery, diamante . (AFP)

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A nineteenth century workers’ trousers. These are thick blue cotton canvas, with several patches made from blue cotton canvas, and blue and white cotton twill. (AFP)

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Paul Poiret, day coat worn by Denise Poiret (1886-1982), 1922. It’s a beige wool cloth (kasha) with red wool embroidery. (AFP)

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Elsa Schiaparelli (in collaboration with Salvador Dalí), shoe hat worn by Gala (1894-1982), winter 1937-1938. (AFP)

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Christian Dior by Yves Saint Laurent, wedding dress for Geneviève Page, 1959. (AFP)

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Givenchy, two-piece dress worn by Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), 1966. (AFP)