Caramba Culture Live & TF1 Spectacle present:
GIANNI VERSACE RETROSPECTIVE
A flamboyant and visionary figure in international fashion, Gianni Versace left a lasting mark on his era through a bold aesthetic in which glamour, sensuality, and baroque opulence converge.
Beginning June 5 and throughout the summer of 2026, Paris—capital of global fashion—will host at the Musée Maillol the first major French retrospective devoted to the designer since 1986.
Gianni Versace Retrospective brings together nearly 450 exceptional pieces: original creations and silhouettes, accessories, sketches,decorative objects, photographs, videos, and rare interviews that offer a comprehensive overview of Gianni Versace’s work.
In a boldly pop scenography designed by Nathalie Crinière, the exhibition traces a career devoted entirely to creation and reveals the many sources of inspiration that shaped Versace’s universe: his beginnings in the family atelier in Calabria, the iconography of the Catholic religion, the influence of Greek sculpture and Italian opera, as well as his fascination with the Baroque and its opulent prints.
Already acclaimed in London, Berlin, and Málaga, as well as in several European cities, the exhibition now naturally finds its place in Paris, where fashion asserts itself as an artistic and cultural language in its own right. Its Paris presentation comes at a particularly symbolic moment, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the designer’s death and what would have been his 80th birthday.
Curators of the Exhibition
Saskia Lubnow & Karl von der Ahé
Set-Design
Nathalie Crinière
The exhibition is a Dreamrealizer production; it is not linked to, nor associated with the company Gianni Versace S.r.l. or the Versace family.
Open daily from 10.30am to 6.30pm (last admission at 5.30pm); late-night opening on Thursdays until 10pm (last admission at 8.30pm)
