The Maison Dior celebrates its 70th Anniversary with exclusive windows at Galeries Lafayette, and to keep you dreaming WindowsWear has a collection of window displays through the years from the iconic brand; pure chicness!
From September 20th to October 10th, Dior will take over 11 window displays at Galeries Lafayette Paris flagship on Boulevard Haussmann. In celebration of creative director Maria Grazia Chiuris blue- themed fall collection for the house, the store will offer 23 exclusive products.
The exhibition will feature 12 vintage outfits designed by the couturier, ranging from the navy wool Doris coat from his first collection in 1947 to the Billet Doux silk day dress with a rose motif from 1957, the year of his death.
The windows of Galeries Lafayette feature 12 blue silhouettes, keeping with the theme of I Feel Blue. The designs, which includes the Doris woolen coat, were created by Mr. Dior and taken from the designers archives.
Also, for a couple of months now, The Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams exhibition highlights the evolution of Diors style across the decades. More than 300 Dior gowns from 1947 to the present day are showcased.
This exhibition in addition showcases designs by Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri, including a dress from her very first couture collection for the house, shown last January.
Many of the items are from the Dior Héritage archives and have never before been seen in Paris. Additional pieces are on loan from institutions including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Londons Victoria and Albert Museum and the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent.
In all, the exhibition will feature more than 300 haute couture gowns designed between 1947 and the present day, alongside atelier toiles and fashion photographs, as well as hundreds of documents, including sketches, illustrations, letters and advertising.
The exhibition opens with the story of Christian Diors life, and details how it informed his designs, which incorporated references to painting, sculpture, china and furnishing fabrics. Works of art are on loan from the Louvre museum, the Château de Versailles and the Pompidou Center, among others.
Throughout the exhibition, paintings, sculptures and decorative objets dart illustrate the couturiers tastes and sources of inspiration as well as a creative sensibility shared by all the artistic directors who have followed in his footsteps, the museum said.
Christian Dior was one of the people who lent objects to the exhibition, and the presence of his designs turned the inauguration into a fashionable and elegant cultural event, the museum noted.