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La Parisienne
Paris was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Monsieur Dior.
“One breathes in fashion with the very air of Paris.”
The French capital’s monuments and streets lent their names and architectural lines to his Haute Couture designs, but his supreme muse was, above all, Parisian women, who breathed grace into Dior's silhouettes. “The queens of the day! Our glories, our muses, those we cling to, envy, love, admire, the elegant women, 'les Parisiennes'…” enthused the couturier, who considered “the famous little black dress dear to Parisians” a style manifesto.
Renée wearing the Bar suit, Haute Couture Spring-Summer 1947 collection. Photography by Willy Maywald, 1955.
© Association Willy Maywald/ADAGP, Paris 2022It is this Dior style, whose uniqueness lies in its perpetual reinvention, that Sarah Moon captured in a series of evanescent and powerfully textured photographs, of which the look Abandon, created by Christian Dior in 1948, stands as witness. This match made of elective affinities was established with the House in 2016, when Maria Grazia Chiuri asked Sarah Moon to interpret her very first collection for Dior.
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The power of gold
07
La Parisienne
Paris was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Monsieur Dior.
“One breathes in fashion with the very air of Paris.”
The French capital’s monuments and streets lent their names and architectural lines to his Haute Couture designs, but his supreme muse was, above all, Parisian women, who breathed grace into Dior's silhouettes. “The queens of the day! Our glories, our muses, those we cling to, envy, love, admire, the elegant women, 'les Parisiennes'…” enthused the couturier, who considered “the famous little black dress dear to Parisians” a style manifesto.
Renée wearing the Bar suit, Haute Couture Spring-Summer 1947 collection. Photography by Willy Maywald, 1955.
© Association Willy Maywald/ADAGP, Paris 2022It is this Dior style, whose uniqueness lies in its perpetual reinvention, that Sarah Moon captured in a series of evanescent and powerfully textured photographs, of which the look Abandon, created by Christian Dior in 1948, stands as witness. This match made of elective affinities was established with the House in 2016, when Maria Grazia Chiuri asked Sarah Moon to interpret her very first collection for Dior.