The Carnavalet museum exhibits the original story of Alice Alleaume, the first saleswomen of the parisian fashion house « Chéruit ». The museum is inspired by the atmosphere of the largest houses of the parisian fashion from the « Belle Epoque » to the 1930’s and tries to tell us the mythic world of the Luxe and of the Haute Couture which made Paris the fashion capital.

You can discover dresses, accessories, samples of textiles that alongside paintings, estampes and photos discovering a luxuous and fantazised world. The exhibition tells you the story of Alice Alleaume’s life which starts in London, then in France in several parisian fashion houses from Doucet, Morin§Blossiet to Diemert before entering at Chéruit where she spent most of her career (1912-1923). She will advise some 600 clients and among them the Spanish Queen Victoria-Eugénie, the Infant Beatrice of Spain, the Queen Marie from Roumania and so many others…