The city of Paris announced on July 4, 2025 the appointment of Émilie Hammen to the post of director of the Galliera Museum. She will take office on July 10, 2025. Franco-American born in 1985, Émilie Hammen graduated from the School of Higher Arts Duperré and the French Fashion Institute (IFM). She worked at Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs while leading a doctorate in fashion history, supported in 2020. She taught Paris and IFM. She attended the Villa Noailles in Hyères in the police station of the Design Parade festival and co-organized in 2015, the exhibition “The factory of an image: the noailles and the fashion” at IFM. In 2023, she published The idea of fashion.
His profile at the crossroads of practice and theory motivated his designation at the Galliera Museum. The fashion museum, opened in 1977, retains a collection of nearly 200,000 works – clothes, accessories, objects – from the 18th century to the present day. Paris Museums indicates that the current orientations of the institution join those carried by Émilie Hammen. As director, she will be responsible for the promotion of collections and the development of programming to the public.
She succeeds Miren Arzalluz, director of the Palais Galliera since 2018, recently appointed Director General of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
The Palais Galliera – Fashion Museum of the City of Paris
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