Catalogue de l'Exposition Dior

Description

The Museum of Decorative Arts, which has a copy of the famous Tailleur Bar of 1947 and had already presented, in 1987, an exhibition "Tribute to Christian Dior", celebrates this anniversary by organizing a flagship exhibition of which this book is the catalog. It shows in detail a selection of 70 silhouettes created by Christian Dior and his successors - Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano, Raf Simons and most recently Maria Grazia Chiuri. Specially photographed for this work, these clothes are accompanied by texts situating them in context, sketches, photographs of fashion shows and achievements of the greatest fashion photographers, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, William Klein, Helmut Newton, Patrick Demarchelier, Paolo Roversi, Peter Lindbergh, Mario Testino, Nick Knight ... The texts address the themes that have marked the history of the house: the notion of line and architecture of clothing, the relationship to history and art (Versailles and the Petit Trianon, the Second Empire, Impressionism, the Belle Époque, the Ballets Russes, Picasso, Dalì, Pollock ...), the deployment of colors, gardens and elsewhere as sources of inspiration, and of course the muses and famous clients of the brand (the Duchess of Windsor, Marlene Dietrich, Grace of Monaco, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Isabelle Adjani, Lady Diana, Marion Cotillard, Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence ...). A book that offers a magnificent synthesis of the most emblematic of French fashion houses and whose iconographic richness will satisfy the most discerning readers.