Musée Galleria sets the tone with star singer Dalida’s Wardrobe

Born to Italian parents and raised in Cairo, Dalida was a beautiful heavenly creature in the mortal world. She was a singer, performer, actress and fashion icon. Dalida’s fashion influence on French couture was magnanimous. At Palais Galleria her exhibition called “Une Garde-Robe De La Ville A La Scene” makes Dalida the subject of an extraordinary collection that shows her reign as fashion empress of France from the 50’s to 80’s.

She was a visionary and her garments were always one step beyond her time; she often set the trends before the style was ever given a name. Dalida popularized evolutionary runway trends as she predicted animal prints, forecasted tuxedo ensembles for women and popularized gypsy costumes before they became fashion crazes with the public. She was truly like an omen and a gift.

She had everything designed for her by famously renowned fashion designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Claude Jitrois and Michel Fresnay. However, only she could awaken each garment’s beauty with her passion for performance arts. By day, she could be bohemian chic, by afternoon have changed to rock star hip, by night she could be engulfed in Hollywood feathers because she truly knew how to stay timeless. It is rightly a collection that women today in the 21st century yearn for and desire for themselves.

She looked all the same memorizing in a typical 50’s corseted summer dress than in a glamorously sequined gown. Her extensive collections of garments were worn for red carpets, concerts and award ceremonies. Whether she was strutting the stage in a leopard suit, dancing the night away in skintight leather bodycon or posing for paparazzi in a Greek goddess ball gown her model perfect body looked flawless from every angle. Her wardrobe was and still is an eternal collection.