This exhibit narrates man's incessant challenge with limits set by nature. A challenge that has involved emotions and fear, reason and calculation, with science and technology committed to always pushing those limits further ahead.

À toute épreuve offers a fascinating cross-section of the lively back-stage of “intelligent clothing”, by now the label for the production of innovative shells capable of offering efficacious protection to the human body in the boldest of exploratory activities – on Earth, as well as in Space – and in the increasingly ambitious challenges of extreme sports.