Presently, since the first Christian Dior fashion show, canning was the ideal pattern at Dior – the regalia of Lady Dior, the icon distilled prestige and majesty. A Seat On Napoleon III’s Chair Two eras were very dear to Christian Dior in the development of the aesthetics of his home – the 18th century, and...
The identity of such an iconic company is also a matter of color – that of Christian Dior is Trianon gray, sometimes called Montaigne gray. The return of a key color in French luxury. The Dior Gray, The color of Beginnings 1947, was the year that Christian Dior purchased 30 Avenue Montaigne. Just a few...
In 1947, post World War II, Christian Dior sent a waltz to the image of the factory woman-soldier – the woman-flower was born, the Tailleur Bar as a standard. How did Dior’s Tailleur Bar come about? Christian Dior, alongside the textile manufacturer Marcel Boussac, they were committed to making a “return to an ideal of...
The Victorian era and the Memphis Group. These are the two antagonisms that Pier Paolo Piccioli tried to bring together within his Fall/Winter 2017-2018 collection imagined for Valentino. The gap is indeed wide – without going into details, the creative director for this Rome-based brand brought together the softness and monochrome of ancient lines with...
Karl Lagerfeld chose the Elbphilharmonie as the architectural setting for a collection that highlights French exception. Embroiderers Maison Lesage and Atelier Montex, milliner Maison Michel, feathermaker Lemarié, and shoemaker Massaro… all of these ancestral crafts now belong to Chanel. This time, Karl Lagerfeld is going back to the roots. The result: nautical nods, a navy chromatic...
It was out of respect to a man as classy as he was bold that one of Guccio Gucci’s sons decided to forge his initials into the heart of the label. The double G was born – and the fact that the letters are interlaced is no accident. This signature indeed symbolizes the original desire of the...
Last May, Dior presented their 2018 Cruise collection in California’s Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve. “For this cruise collection, we took off from a 1951 Christian Dior collection that reinterpreted the paintings in the Lascaux caves. It was an unexpected reference and an extraordinary collection that is still relatively unknown. Then we transposed this attitude here,...
Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi presented a colorful collection in Milan, and a bold one at that! A special triangulation is immediately apparent: a fabric, organza; a motif, crossed stripes borrowed from tartan; and a tropical palette. The starting point for this Spring/Summer 2018 is Italian futurism, an artistic movement that seeks to depict...
The editor of Vogue Japan, Anna dello Russo, is signing off on a capsule collection that’s just like her own personality: chic and off-kilter. By bringing things into the beautiful circus universe, the Italian fashion editor composed a series of pieces as funny as they are desirable – this limited edition was made especially for Christmas. Anna...
Fusalp is a brand as innovative as it is stylish – thanks to them, the very first ski suit hit the slopes during the Portillo world alpine ski championship. The year was 1966, and France alone brought home 16 medals including 7 out of the 8 gold up for grabs. This was the moment when skiing...
