Both the Louvre, and all museums have been closed, and if in heading of newspaper article was informed on «a sensational exhibition» it was possible not to doubt: it is a question not of pictures, but about dresses, - by which it has been prepared, however, «to serve that refined artistic pleasure that has been taken away from Parisians too for a long time». So fashions and pleasures again came into the own; fashions, for lack of other arts, required the justification as in 1793 year when artists - participants of revolutionary Salon proclaimed that «in vain severe republicans name strange our hobby for arts while the connected forces of Europe have besieged freedom territory». In 1916 so couturiers, not without pride of artists confirming, however, that «search new arrived, renunciation of banality, the statement of individual style, work on a victory, opening for post-war generations of the new formula of beauty - here the dream which has exhausted them pursued by them a chimera of what it is easy to be convinced, having visited the exhibition which wonderfully has located in the street … where the desire to eclipse the light cheerful note (with restraint, of course, decent to circumstances) heavy alarms of our days -  sounds as if a leitmotif».