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The Enchanted Gardens
Ever since the House of Dior’s inception, gardens serve as a common thread between places, eras, and areas of expression and creation.
“I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts, and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts.”
Monsieur Dior's love of nature began when he was still a child, in Normandy, at the family home, Les Rhumbs.
As he embarked on his new journey as a couturier, Christian Dior drew, starting with his first collection, the silhouette of a "femme-fleur”, enhanced by the Corolle line, described in the press release of 1947 as “dancing, very full-skirted”. Rosebuds and bell-shaped lily of the valley flowers blossomed in his designs in the form of sumptuous embroidery and poetic prints.
And that floral aesthetic has been passionately cultivated by Dior's successors, from Yves Saint Laurent to Maria Grazia Chiuri, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano and Raf Simons. This celebration of nature is further enriched every season, which has been captured here in Yuriko Takagi's graceful and sensitive photographs. The Japanese artist showcases ballerina-models, revealing Dior’s creations “in the movement of life”, to use the words of the eponymous couturier and founder. These dreamlike images seem to suspend the fleeting and delicate elegance of the plant world in space and time.
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The Dior style
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The Enchanted Gardens
Ever since the House of Dior’s inception, gardens serve as a common thread between places, eras, and areas of expression and creation.
“I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts, and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts.”
Monsieur Dior's love of nature began when he was still a child, in Normandy, at the family home, Les Rhumbs.
As he embarked on his new journey as a couturier, Christian Dior drew, starting with his first collection, the silhouette of a "femme-fleur”, enhanced by the Corolle line, described in the press release of 1947 as “dancing, very full-skirted”. Rosebuds and bell-shaped lily of the valley flowers blossomed in his designs in the form of sumptuous embroidery and poetic prints.
And that floral aesthetic has been passionately cultivated by Dior's successors, from Yves Saint Laurent to Maria Grazia Chiuri, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano and Raf Simons. This celebration of nature is further enriched every season, which has been captured here in Yuriko Takagi's graceful and sensitive photographs. The Japanese artist showcases ballerina-models, revealing Dior’s creations “in the movement of life”, to use the words of the eponymous couturier and founder. These dreamlike images seem to suspend the fleeting and delicate elegance of the plant world in space and time.