FASHION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND REVOLUTION: DISCOVER « LE TEMPS COURRÈGES »

Through November 2026, the Maeght Foundation is presenting “Le Temps Courrèges,” an exhibition devoted to photographer Peter Knapp’s perspective on the style revolution launched by André Courrèges within the Nineteen Sixties.

A reimagining of the Courrèges silhouette

In Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the Maeght Foundation is presenting an distinctive exhibition devoted to the visionary world of André Courrèges, on view by way of November 2026. Entitled “Le Temps Courrèges”, the exhibition shines a highlight on the work of photographer Peter Knapp, whose lens captured the aesthetic revolution that redefined style within the 1960s. Bringing collectively images, high fashion creations, and beforehand unseen archival supplies, the exhibition traces the emergence of a pioneering model whose affect continues to resonate at this time.

In 1965, André Courrèges remodeled the style panorama along with his spring–summer season high fashion assortment. Featuring mini-skirts, graphic traces, and impeccably structured silhouettes, it launched a daring new imaginative and prescient of femininity—fashionable, liberated, and confidently oriented towards the longer term. Immortalized by Peter Knapp for ELLE journal, this now-iconic assortment varieties the center of the exhibition. 

A narrative of friendship and creativity

The ties between the Maeght household, André Courrèges, and Peter Knapp have grown stronger over the a long time. The photographer first found the basis in 1978 throughout a photograph shoot for Courrèges and solid an enduring relationship with the Maeght household. This shut bond now serves because the inspiration for an exhibition that celebrates each the artistic innovation and the creative friendships which have given rise to quite a few landmark collaborations.