
A graduate in art history, Olivier Saillard has left an indelible mark on the world of fashion through his curatorial and artistic endeavors. His career began as Director of the Musée de la Mode in Marseille, before he took on the role of Head of Programming at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2000. In 2010, he became Director of the Palais Galliera, shaping the institution into a temple of fashion history. Since 2017, he has been at the helm of the Alaïa Foundation while also serving as Artistic Director of JM Weston.
A celebrated author, Saillard has penned several works, including An Ideal History of Contemporary Fashion, and has curated major exhibitions on Yohji Yamamoto, Christian Lacroix, Jeanne Lanvin, Madame Grès, and Balenciaga. His work extends beyond curation into poetic performance, collaborating with luminaries such as Charlotte Rampling and Tilda Swinton to explore fashion as an artistic expression.
In 2018, he launched his first haute couture collection, “Moda Povera”, an ode to craftsmanship that elevates ordinary garments into timeless pieces of art.
Bringing his deep sensitivity and childhood memories to MOMUS, Olivier Saillard has created Chapelle des Bois, a coffee infused with the same artistic rigor and emotion that define his work.

Late at night, early in the morning, Sundays began with the delivery of the daily newspaper.
My mother, who had taken up the profession of taxi driver with a taste for emancipation, carried out this weekly Sunday mission. In all the villages, lost in the snow and the cold, I assisted her, sometimes forced to because I often followed a night in a club with the rounds... But always, I was rewarded with the slow rise of the sun on the white and mute snow. Despite the difficult roads to drive on and the ruts, despite the cold - it was regularly minus thirty - I have kept a tender and warm memory where my mother and I, in silence, drove at measured pace. From hamlets to villages, where the regional newspaper depositors were waiting for us, in the adjoining farms, we shared a large bowl of black coffee, comforting and hot. Standing, around a corner of a table and a worn oilcloth, each one tasted the boiling and good coffee while burning their lips. From the coffee pots placed on the cast iron of the wood stoves, aromas mixed with the smell of embers escaped. In Chapelle des Bois, a small, remote village in the Haut Doubs, in what is called Little Siberia, we allowed ourselves to savor the coffee offered a little longer. Chapelle des Bois sounded the end of the tour. The hypnotic white snow, the sky that was gradually turning intense blue, the inky and black coffee proclaimed in unison the awakening of the world.