Dior Exhibition
at Melbourne's National Gallery of VictoriaThe House of @Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture. Need we say more? Of course! With garments often taking hundreds of hours and dozens of skilled hands to assemble, the astronomically-priced Christian Dior pieces are what the rarefied craft cost, and for you to fawn over.
@monicamarkle Never short of being a theatrical spectacle, the pieces exhibited include the lashings and fabrics used to create the quintessential ‘New Look’ silhouettes that first defined post-war fashion, to the brand’s lavish contemporary runway show pieces.
Featuring 140 garments from the house designed from 1947 to 2017, there will be those reinterpreted and reinvented by Yves Saint Laurent, to Marc Bohan, Gianfrano Ferre, John Galiano, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri. Think: sketches, photographs, haute couture toiles and other archival material.
@timelesstraveldiaries And the opening? ‘twas equally theatrical. The evening before the opening, a black-tie gala was held and @kimbramusic performed. As the whole exhibition focuses explicitly on Dior’s Haute Couture creations, craftsmanship is what’s centre at the show – literally – as they create an atelier in the middle of the exhibit. Incredible magic. Catch it now, open from August 27 to November 7, 2017.
