[Les Lignes de la main] Episode 12 – Émilie Hammen, Director of the Palais Galliera and fashion historian

This new episode of the Lignes de la main podcast features Émilie Hammen, director of the Palais Galliera fashion museum in Paris and researcher in fashion history. Having studied applied arts and then art history, before working in the studios of major fashion houses, Hammen embodies an approach that closely links practice and historiography. She strives to create a dialogue between savoir-faire and the discourse that shapes our understanding of creation. 

Through a guided tour of the exhibition Weaving, Embroidering, Embellishing: The Crafts and Trades of Fashion at the Palais Galliera, this episode pulls the curtain back on the material aspects of creation, revealing how every gesture is part of a historical continuum. Between transmission, innovation, and memory, fashion is revealed here as a complex language, made up of hands, materials, and ideas. 

 Les Lignes de la main is a podcast series that explores the intimate relationship between creators and their hands. 

A podcast produced for le19M by Géraldine Sarratia, directed by Emmanuel Baux.