The Museum of Decorative Art of Paris dresses in Dior to honor its seven decades in fashion; More than 300 designs of its different creative directors can be visited, in their first exhibition in 3 decades.
Every Parisian is talking about the heart of the exhibition of “Christian Dior: the dream designer”, at the Museum of Decorative Art, where a chromatic series of coats, couture dresses in real and miniature scale, shoes, purses, perfumes and the refined illustrations of the Swedish Mats Gustavson and René Gruau are exhibited as an artistic rainbow.
From this month until the end of January 2018, Paris celebrates the couturier’s seventieth anniversary and its first one since 1987, with an exhibition of 300 creations by the founder and its subsequent creative directors, from 1947 to 2017.
Everybody can get to the museum to see closely the mythical white Bar Jacket (1947), which founded the New Look, and the Junon couture dress, with its emboidered petals tail. Moreover, Yves Saint Lauren´s trapeze collection, considered by the press as “the ugliest Dior collection”, the ’60s dresses by Marc Bohan and golden and bombastic collections by Gianfranco Ferré.
Also, the spectacular 2004 Egyptian-inspired dresses by John Galliano, the twist that Belgian designer Raf Simons brought to the Maison with his colorful pleated skirts and artist Agnes Martin printed dresses.
Raf Simons
And last but not least, the most recent creations by the first female creative director. The Italian Maria Grazia Chiuri, who turned Dior into a more feminist and comfortable brand, such as the white taffeta dress Rihanna wore at Cannes red carpet, this year.
Rihanna Dress
Galliano
Chiuri
Museum Director Olivier Gabet and Dior exhibition curator Florence Müller focused on the relationship between arts and the fashion house, always intrinsically related. For this reason, they decided to show the creations together with their context: Yves Saint Laurent’s 1954 Nuit à Trianon dress, with prints of Hameau de la Reine´s landscapes. Dresses are exhibited along with his artistic inspiration and photographs of the rustic village, built for Marie Antoinette near the Petit Trianon at the Château de Versailles in France, in order to “understand the roots of creation,” Müller said in a dialogue with Vogue Paris.
“Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams” is an great way to see how the Maison´s identity remained still despite of its change of command: the line, the silhouette and the idea of a dress as a moving architectural piece flows within the decades.
In addition, Müller pointed out that “Couture shows are made only for an elite of journalists and private clients where the public can not attend to these shows. With this exhibition, Christian Dior’s secrets are exposed to the world, just like attending behind the scene”.
