The Louvre in Paris opened its first-ever fashion exhibition on Friday, seeking to draw new, younger audiences to the world's most popular museum.

The show, called "Louvre Couture", welcomed its first visitors a day after a stark warning from the director of the famed museum about overcrowding inside the former royal palace.

The exhibition features around a hundred items of clothing by 45 top designers that have been placed alongside objects from the Louvre's vast collection of decorative artworks, from chests of drawers to armour.

In one instance, a Dolce & Gabbana wool dress printed with a mosaic and embroidered with crystals, stones, and sequins echoes the patterns of an 11th-century Italian mosaic from Torcello, near........

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