Man Ray and Fashion / Man Ray et la mode – Musée du Luxembourg, Paris

As the museumgoer enters the first room of the exhibition “Man Ray and Fashion”, he/she is plunged into a Dadaist interpretation of what fashion can mean thanks to a picture of a flat iron adorned with brass tacks entitled The Gift/ Cadeau (1921) and a massive installation made of sixty-three wooden coat hangers, Obstruction (1920). The surrealist dimension of Man Ray’s work is apparent through these two art pieces conveying an image of the world of fashion as unfrivolous or unglamorous but a.