Look 48
2018 {spring-summer 2018}
Medium
silk, metal
Measurements
156.0 cm (centre back) 40.0 cm (waist, flat)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Christian Dior Couture, 2018
© Christian Dior Couture
Gallery location
Level 3, NGV International
About this work
In July 2016 Maria Grazia Chiuri became the seventh designer and first female artistic director at Christian Dior. The daughter of a dressmaker, Chiuri studied fashion at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome. Prior to Dior, she held various design roles at Fendi and Valentino. The designer quickly garnered a reputation at Dior for feminine, forthright and romantic yet practical designs. This look features trompe l’oeil metallic sequinning transposing the naked female torso onto the exterior. This design alludes to surrealist dreaming, the unconscious and women’s bodies, with reference to the Argentine-Italian surrealist artist Leonor Fini, one of the avant-garde artists Christian Dior chose to exhibit in the gallery he ran before he became a couturier.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Accession Number
2018.1143
Department
International Fashion and Textiles
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest