Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world’s media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. PARIS, Sept Christian showcased a burst of colorful 1960s- and 1970s-flavored mini dresses as crowds returned to its hometown show at the Paris fashion week. Yves Saint LaurentYves Saint Laurent was best known as an influential European fashion designer who impacted fashion in the 1960s to the present day. The Dior boutique carries the complete line of women’s ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes and accessories, as well as fine jewelry and timepieces.
Dior opens a luxury read-to-wear house in New York on Fifth Avenue. The original lines, titled Corolle and Huit, soon garnered the name the New Look and sparked a revolution in the fashion world. Its full-skirted silhouette collection gained Dior prominent clients from across the world. This exhibition is organized by the DAM and curated by Florence Müller, the DAM’s Avenir Foundation Curator of Textile Art and Fashion. It features exhibition design by internationally renowned architect Shohei Shigematsu, principal of OMA New York. Following its run at the DAM, this exhibition will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art.
With objects drawn primarily from the Dior archives, the exhibition includes a vast array of over two hundred haute couture garments as well as photographs, archival videos, sketches, vintage perfume elements, accessories, and works from the Museum’s collection. The haute couture on view exemplifies many of the French couturier’s fabled silhouettes, including the “New Look,” which debuted in 1947. Christian Dior S.A., more commonly known as Dior, is a French luxury goods company founded by Christian Dior, controlled by Bernard Arnault, who also heads LVMH. Fashion legends like Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano and Christian Dior himself, built the impression of Dior relate to luxury, haute couture and desire.
The style was named after Meghan’s late mother-in-law, Princess Diana. According to FT, the then-unnamed purse was gifted to Princess Diana in 1995 by the French first lady. Diana took a liking to the bag, which she received in black leather, and began wearing it often. Dior officially named the bag after Diana in 1996, and reportedly sold 200,000 in its first two years of production. Presented are galleries devoted to Dior and the artistic directors who succeeded him—Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri. A toile room, a tribute to the Ateliers, and adjacent galleries of couture garments showcase the excellence of Dior’s petites mains.
Last summer, the singer starred in a campaign for the brand’s Bobby bag and in March 2021, she was named an official ambassador. “Jisoo embodies, with her singular audacity, the house’s modernity and the passionate creativity of Maria Grazia , who was inspired by the Korean singer for her autumn/winter 2021 collection,” Dior said in a statement about the appointment. Yves Saint Laurent is appointed as artistic director for the fashion house. Spanning 1947 to the present day, this exhibition traces the history and impact of one of the 20th century’s most influential couturiers, exploring the enduring influence of the fashion house, and Dior’s relationship with Britain. In 2016 book publisher Assouline introduced an ongoing series devoted to each designer of the couture house of Dior.
Hear about collections, exhibitions, courses and events from the V&A and ways you can support us. Late American rapper Pop Smoke released a song titled Lancome makeup in July 2019. Pop Smoke also mentioned the Dior brand in other songs, including Enjoy Yourself, “Shopping up in Saks Fifth with a cup of Actavis to get Christian Dior; Look, I be all up in the stores .” The Paul Gallico novella Mrs ‘Arris Goes to Paris tells the story of a London charwoman who falls in love with her employer’s couture wardrobe and decides to go to Paris to purchase herself a Dior ballgown.
A Lancome makeup star has been fixed to the top of the building as a symbol of good luck from Monsieur Dior. Dior Miami will debut as the first boutique with the star installation in the U.S. The same symbol can also be found on top of Dior boutiques in Omotesando, Tokyo and Seoul, Korea. He heads up the Haute Couture, Fashion Furs, Women’s Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Wear and the Women’s Collection collections. Businessman Marcel Boussac integrates the new couture house into a textile business he already operates.