He reconciles American culture with French fashion house

Dior New York exhibition... 300 dresses documenting 75 years of elegance

The dresses are displayed throughout the "Magic Garden" hall with a star-adorned ceiling at the New York Museum.

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The "Dior" exhibition will land, starting today, Friday, at the "Brooklyn Museum" in New York, in a different way, its previous stations in Paris and London, reconciling the designs of the French fashion house with American culture.

The 300 dresses in the exhibition narrate the 75-year history of Dior and the designers who succeeded Christian Dior after his death in 1957, from Yves Saint Laurent to Maria Grazia Chiuri, the current artistic director of Dior and the first woman in the history of this position. The house.

These dresses are displayed throughout the "Magic Garden" hall with a star-adorned ceiling at the New York Museum.

The exhibition "Dream Designer Dior" in the French capitals in 2017 and the British in 2019 witnessed a record turnout, and the house owned by the giant "LVMH" group wanted its exhibition in New York to coincide with the fashion week in the city, focusing on the American side of Christian Dior's biography. .

The French fashion designer achieved great success in Paris when he launched his first collection "Corolle" in 1947, which Harper's Bazaar magazine called "New Look", and it was a revolution in the fashion of that era, as its designs were characterized by narrow waist, round hips and a puffed skirt.

Christian Dior was invited to Dallas to receive the prestigious Neiman Marcus award.

While in Chicago, he faced protests from women who expressed their disapproval of the very long skirts of his "grandmothers".

Nevertheless, in 1948 he set up his home on Fifth Avenue in New York City, which he later wrote of "a constant admiration."

"Dior began exploring the world from this house in 1948," said Florence Muller, the curator in charge of the fashion collections at the Denver Museum, describing the French designer as "a pioneer in the globalization of fashion."

Florence Muller noted that "about two-thirds of these dresses were not included in the main exhibition in Paris."

She explained that "Christian Dior was not designing haute couture in New York, but was content with manufacturing luxury ready-to-wear for American women looking for more comfortable and perhaps easier to wear clothes."

And the Brooklyn Museum was able to combine the designs of "Dior" and some of the art pieces it contains.

The Brooklyn Museum's curator of costumes, Matthew Yokobowski, noted that "Dior had a passion for art, and he shows that through his work."

From the start of the exhibition tour, a porcelain doll appears in a black dress designed by Christian Dior himself, which the museum was able to obtain in 1949 for an exhibition on French fashion that was held at the time.

Then, attention is drawn to a similarity between another dress by British John Galliano and a painting by Italian Giovanni Boldini dating back to the early 20th century.

Italian Maria Grazia Chiuri collaborated in a fashion show with American feminist artist Judy Chicago, whose most famous work, "The Dinner Party", is shown at the Brooklyn Museum.

Some halls were dedicated to Hollywood stars who wore "Dior" clothes and to the American photographers who immortalized the designs of the house, Richard Avedon.

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