A few weeks from the opening of Paris Fashion Week, the Hotel Raspail Montparnasse invites you to discover the exhibition “Christian Dior, the Dreams couturier” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
A few weeks from the opening of Paris Fashion Week, the Hotel Raspail Montparnasse invites you to discover the exhibition “Christian Dior, the Dreams couturier” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the famous French Haute Couture House, the Museum of Decorative Arts, a place Mr Dior particularly liked, offers a rich, dense and magisterial retrospective on nearly 3000m². Seven decades of excellence around the mythical creations imagined by the talented artistic directors who successively headed the Dior house after Christian Dior’s disappearance in 1957: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and, today, Maria Grazia Chiuri. Hotel for Paris Fashion week
The exhibition begins with a reminder of the life of Christian Dior, his childhood, his discovery and his passion for art, his learning of fashion design and finally his entry in Haute Couture. He also headed a art gallery and and was a passionate collector of Art Nouveau. These passions are evoked throughout this journey and put a light on these sources of inspiration, which clearly defined the Dior House uncomparable style. Inspirations, emotions, creations are presented around 300 haute couture dresses, hundreds of sketches, illustrations, objects and fashion accessories from 1947 to the present day. A reconstituted Atelier de couture, within the exhibition pays tribute to the know-how and techniques of the ladies workers, often called “petites mains” wiithout which haute couture could not exist.The exhibition ends in the nave of the museum, decorated as a ballroom for the presentation of sumptuous evening gowns, including the dress known as “Soirée Brillante”, which was presented in the same place in 1955, during the days of Christian Dior. Hotel for Paris Fashion week
A key figure in fashion, Christian Dior was able to reconcile the post-war period with the couture traditions, while offering modernity to the image of women. He is one of those who made Paris “the Fashion Capital”
Numerous pieces from private collections, national and international museums complete those from the Dior Héritage fund to present this retrospective during the Fashion Week in Paris (September 26th to October 3rd)
Exhibition Christian Dior, couturier du rêve: Until January 7, 2018, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris Hotel for Paris Fashion week
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