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PARIS – Palais Galliera has appointed Emilie Hammen, a respected academic with experience in working for leading luxury houses, his new director.
Hammen took up the post on July 10 and succeeded Miren Arzalluz, who was appointed general director of Guggenheim Bilbao in November last November after being stinked at the head of the town hall in Paris supported by Paris.
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As a graduate of the Ecole Duperré and the Français de la mode or IFM institute, Hammen began her career as a designer for textile accessories at Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs. In 2020 she received his doctorate in fashion history at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
“Through closely articulating theory and practice, it has developed an original approach that contributes to the renewal of contemporary readings of fashion history,” said the museum in a explanation.
Hammen teaches history and fashion theory in Sorbonne, where she leads the first French university chair to devote itself to the history of fashion and her inheritance. Since 2014 she has also been teaching fashion history at IFM, where she heads the Chanel and Le19m chair in Fashion Savoir-Fair.
A curator and a scholar, Hammen is the author of the book “L’Idée de Mode” in English in English, which, by analyzing texts, history and visual studies, examines the way fashion developed into a discipline.
A French-American citizen, Hammen worked with Dior under Maria Grazia Chiuri’s term in research behind every collection and was among other things the exhibition with the 100th century with the Sticker-Lesage.
“As director of the Palais Galliera, Emilie Hammen will rely on her double specialist knowledge in fashion, both scientifically and creatively,” said the museum.
“It will continue to develop the museum’s extraordinary collection through an ambitious and balanced exhibition program, which is anchored in contemporary questions and is attractive for visitors from Paris, France and abroad,” she added.
During her term, Arzalluz supervised a large expansion financed by Chanel, which doubled the exhibition area of the museum and introduced a permanent collection in addition to changing exhibits.
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