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“Christian Dior: Couturier du rêve” retrospective at The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
‘Christian Dior: Couturier du rêve’ at The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs
‘Christian Dior: Couturier du rêve’ at The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs
Bar Suit, Christian Dior Haute Couture, Spring-Summer, 1947. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Nicholas Alan Cope
Left: Opéra Bouffe gown, Christian Dior Haute Couture, Fall-Winter 1956. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Nicholas Alan Cope
Right: Junon gown, Christian Dior Haute Couture, Fall-Winter 1949. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Nicholas Alan Cope
Left: Raf Simons for Christian Dior Haute Couture, Fall-Winter 2012. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Nicholas Alan Cope
Right: Palladio dress, Gianfranco Ferré for Christian Dior Haute Couture, Spring-Summer 1992. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Nicholas Alan Cope
Left: Bonne Conduite dress, Yves Saint Laurent for Christian Dior Haute Couture, Spring-Summer 1958. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Nicholas Alan Cope
Right: Gamin suit, Marc Bohan for Christian Dior Haute Couture, Fall-Winter 1961. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Nicholas Alan Cope
Left: Essence d’herbier cocktail dress, Maria Grazia Chiuri for Christian Dior Haute Couture, Spring-Summer 2017. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs / Nicholas Alan Cope
Right: John Galliano for Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring-Summer 1999. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris / Nicholas Alan Cope
Left: New Junon dress, Maria Grazia Chiuri for Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2017. Photo © Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris / Nicholas Alan Cope
Right: Dior exhibition at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs.
Christian Dior fashion house celebrates its 70th anniversary. The largest retrospective ever made shows the result of the lifetime of works created by Christian Dior himself and six art directors – his successors who were making and interpreting in their own way codes and aesthetics of the fashion house through decades.
Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and the house’s current creative director for women’s collections, Maria Grazia Chiuri, influenced the style of the fashion house, but each of them maintained and enriched its identity and the original concept.
The selection of over 300 haute couture gowns designed between 1947 and the present days, dresses worn by famous style icons, hundreds of archive documents, including illustrations, photographs, letters and couturier’s notebooks, advertising posters, and accessories, including hats, jewelry, shoes and perfume bottles – the homage to Dior universe is exhibited on 32000m2 space.
A special display is devoted to the signature silhouette of the house – New Look. Created in 1947, it brought Christian Dior instant fame and became the new symbol of femininity.
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/
Musée des Arts décoratifs
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 44 55 57 5
from 5 July 2017 to 7 January 2018
