Nude
Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2018
Before he became a couturier, Christian Dior opened a gallery on rue Cambacérès with his friend Pierre Colle in 1932. The following year, after having organized a monographic exhibition on the work of Salvador Dalí, they decided to devote their next exhibition to the surrealist movement.
They exhibited artists such as Man Ray, Valentine Hugo, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, René Magritte, and Marcel Duchamp.
Despite the fact that he had moved on from his work as a gallery owner, Christian Dior and his successors always paid tribute to art and artists. Maria Grazia Chiuri even dedicated an entire collection to surrealism in 2018.
One of the looks designed for this collection was inspired by an artwork exhibited by Christian Dior at Pierre Colle’s gallery. Man Ray’s nude became a trompe l’œil embroidered on a long dress in gray tulle.
The expertise of the embroiderer Vermont put craftsmanship at the service of art, through its reinterpretation of Man Ray’s surrealist intention, to create the illusion of a naked body on a design.
Maria Grazia presented this collection in an imaginary setting, which was reminiscent of the world of the artists to whom she paid tribute.
Maria Grazia presented this collection in an imaginary setting, which was reminiscent of the world of the artists to whom she paid tribute.
©Laziz Hamani ; © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris 2022 ; © André Breton Estate/ADAGP,
Paris 2022 ; © Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, VEGAP
2022 ; © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris 2022 ; © Max Ernst Estate/ADAGP, Paris 2022 ; Image : © CNAC/MNAM/ ; ©Bridgeman images
