Dior Archive

Maison Dior takes the enhancement of Venetian heritage quite seriously

It was 2020 when Dior covered the facade of the Correr Museum with a cascade of gold created by Fabrizio Plessi. This year, the French house continues to invest in Venice with two initiatives

Editorial Team

Maria Grazia Chiuri – young girls and their master ladies

Being sustainable means also protecting artisans from dissolving into the contemporary rush – young girls ready to save the legacy of textile masters

Cesare Cunaccia

Friday the 13th: the $25.9 million Canoe on canvas – Peter Doig paints Canada, London and Trinidad

Snow, trees, rinks, architectures and figures drawn in smudges, and the history of Peter Doig. The story of an artist who has even seduced the fashion industry

Matthew Burgos

Sam Baron for Dior: lacquered metal and a gradient of pink

«It is about the usage – the way we are going to sit together. I wanted it to be a form of nostalgia. It also recalls the gardens and flowers Mr. Dior showed his reverence for»

Matthew Burgos

Cédrine Scheidig is the winner of the Dior Prize for Photography and Visual Arts for Young Talents

«I have suffered from the lack of representation, from the absence of bodies that looked like mine». Cédrine Scheidig adresses the imaginaries of the Second Generation

Sian Lori

Kim Jones / Miami – The Rubell Museum and the Dior men’s collection

The Rubell Museum, Shawn Stussy and The Dior men’s collection presented in Miami in December

Editorial Team

The world through the eye of the needle: Dior’s narration on threads and texture

Dior returns to the runway with a show staged at Musée Rodin. A play on materiality which transformed the house’s embroidery into a performance

Cecilia Falovo

Dior Her – Maria Grazia Chiuri: it’s no longer about clothes, but about political efforts

We should all be feminist because this is (still) a men’s world: «Hers is a world to be discovered, in which she lets you enter gradually»

Cesare Cunaccia

God’s love at work – Dior is talking about a rose, that is a rose, that is a rose…

Rosa Centifolia, the ‘hundred-leaf rose’, becomes a template: this time, RoseDior focuses on open work for the leaves and chiseled gold for the branches

Olivier Dupon

Lampoon / Transition – We mean it if we say it’s all about HER

The unbearable lightness of being a woman: a midway between meaningfulness and irony is used to explore the Dior ideal of femininity

Editorial Team

Lampoon / Transition – The stillness of an Italian Sunday is broken by neon shades

Amoako Boafo and Kim Jones transport an echo of their African memories in the French Maison, looking for Africa through contemporary and disruptive elements

Matteo Mammoli

Dior Nose, Grasse. A tale of raw materials, smells and savoir-faire

An overview on the documentary film that follows François Demachy, Parfumeur-Créateur Dior, in his journey through the area’s milieu, heritage and expertise

Veronica Gisondi

Dior exerts fairy tales: elves, goblins, wizards in stories directed at children to teach morals

The perspective of Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis: oral storytelling becomes fabrics and choreography, Maria Grazia Chiuri is narrating her last collections

Matthew Burgos

Gold floods Piazza San Marco – history and technology combine in Plessi’s installation

The marble façade of Museo Correr becomes a cascade of molten gold – Dior’s hymn to the Venetian Republic and to culture and ethics

Cesare Cunaccia

Gathering artisans and craftsmen to give rebirth to the identity of a nation

Maria Grazia Chiuri staged the Dior Cruise show 2021 at the Piazza del Duomo in Lecce, a town in the southern Italian region Puglia. The show paid tribute to the region’s artisans

Lilly Meuser

Unveiling Le Mythe Dior, inspiration from female Surrealists

In couture presentation, the spectators were taken on a mystic display tour into the world of Le Mythe Dior, a film directed by the filmmaker Matteo Garrone

Lilly Meuser

Spreading the message of hope, after this period of difficulty

The House announces a live runway show behind closed doors. The Dior Cruise Show 2021 presents a collection about community, inclusiveness, and craftsmanship

Lilly Meuser