Group Exhibition: Christian Dior
- Jun 7, 2021
- 1 min read
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams
Brooklyn Museum
New York, NY
10 SEPTEMBER 2021 / 20 FEBRUARY 2022
"The highly successful ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ exhibition, which debut in Paris at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2017, before stopping in London and Shanghai is coming to America in September.
The major retrospective of the House of Dior will run at the Brooklyn Museum in New York from September 10 to February 20, 2022, with an updated version, which will feature over two hundred haute couture garments as well as photographs, archival videos, sketches, vintage perfume elements, accessories, and works from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection."
(From Fashion United)
"The event, which will take over the venue’s spacious Beaux-Arts Court, will be curated by Florence Müller, Avenir Foundation curator of textile art and fashion at the Denver Art Museum, in collaboration with Matthew Yokobosky, senior curator of fashion and material culture at the Brooklyn Museum.
A dedicated space will celebrate American masters of photography including Richard Avedon, whose Dovima with the Elephants will be flanked by prints from the likes of Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, Henry Clarke, Lillian Bassman, Frances McLaughlin-Gill, William Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts and David LaChapelle."
(From Women’s Wear Daily)
Visit the Brooklyn Museum website here.
Shown Above: David LaChapelle,"You", 2003, Chromogenic print
Pairing Avedon and LaChapelle's photographs with the Dior couture pieces is a brilliant way to show how much fashion photography shapes the mood of a runway show — images and music both set the emotional tone before a single garment moves. I get a similar feeling experimenting with a free piano keyboard in the browser when I'm sketching after a long day. Truly a must-see show.
This retrospective reminds me that a great fashion photograph is inseparable from its setting — Avedon's Dovima with the Elephants wouldn't be the same without those Parisian columns, and LaChapelle's pieces are equally tied to their specific, surreal locations. I've been curious about the exact spots behind some of the older shots in this show, and a tool like this AI photo geolocation service is surprisingly good at narrowing down where an image was taken from just visual clues.
Seeing "Designer of Dreams" travel from Paris to London, Shanghai, and now Brooklyn is a real celebration of how a single house is reinterpreted in each city. Pairing the haute couture pieces with photographs by Avedon, Penn, and LaChapelle is a great reminder that fit and proportion are half the story — and that same care with measurements is what makes a tool like a free online bra size calculator so useful, turning underbust and overbust numbers into a confident, comfortable fit.
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What a stunning retrospective — the idea of dedicating an entire gallery to American masters like Avedon, Penn, and LaChapelle alongside the haute couture pieces is genuinely thrilling. The archival sketches, vintage perfume elements, and photographs would be a treasure on their own, and it makes me think how much of this fashion history still lives in fragile, paper-based archives. That is exactly the kind of material a neural-network-driven AI OCR converter for historical archives could help preserve and make searchable for researchers and curators.