As Paris gears up to host the Olympic Games, the city’s museums have staged a series of exhibitions highlighting the relationship between fashion and sport.
One show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs last year showed how the invention of the bicycle revolutionized the way women dress, with the tipping point arriving in the 1920s, when designers including Jean Patou, Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli and Gabrielle Chanel introduced…