Musée Christian Dior
Musée Christian Dior
Monsieur Christian Dior, who revolutionized fashion with his New Look, didn’t grow up in Paris, surrounded by chic women and high fashion. Instead, some people forget that he called the French coast home. More specifically, Normandy. Today, his childhood home has been transformed into the Musée Christian Dior, which just unveiled the its latest exhibition celebrating the legendary designer. Dior: The Legendary Images, focuses on garments and photographs from 1940 to today.
The exhibition, which was curated by Florence Muller, who previously worked on collections with French department store Le Bon Marché, the Villa Noailles and the Yves Saint Laurent exhibit at Paris’ Petit Palais in 2010. With Dior: The Legendary Images, Muller focused on the different decades after Dior debuted the New Look, collecting the images closely associated with the rise of fashion photography and contains work from celebrated photographers such as Norman Parkinson, William Klein, and Erwin Blumenfeld.
Musée Christian Dior
Dior: The Legendary Images includes the maison‘s couture work as well as ready-to-wear, with images set in iconic Parisian locations such as the Louvre, the Opéra Garnier and more. Images culled from the ’40s and even the ’90s show models stand in front French pastries, perfectly groomed poodles and more. It’s a collection of everything that you think of when you imagine French fashion, from wasp-waisted ensembles du soir, nipped Bar jackets and jaunty hats perched just so. If you’re planning a trip to France this summer, make a stop in Normandy to see everything from the exhibit, which runs through September 21.
Images courtesy Musée Christian Dior
