Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Dior and artists: an exhibition Grainville

Paris, 1928: A young Christian Dior takes courage for four hands and decides to seek help from the father to open a small art gallery. Monsieur Dior agree to fund the project on the condition that the family name does not appear ever. The designer accepts the dream come true but not for long, because in 1929 the crisis, ruining the family business and also the consequence of the gallery and Christian began to take its first steps in the fashion world.


Thus the designer's passion for painting and sculpture has gone almost unnoticed in his biography but deeply pervades his style and it is this very intermingling that the House has decided to highlight the Dior show, Le Bal des Artistes scheduled from May 14 to September 25 at the Musée de Grainville and curated by fashion historian Florence Müller.

Dior fact, in company with Jacques Bonjean, Pierre Colle, helped to spread in France the work of young Italian artists like Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Giacometti and highlight the value of some works that later became the masterpiece as the persistence of memory (also known as Soft Watches) by Salvador Dali.

His historical friendship with the painter Leonor Fini greatly influenced its collections and back of the reputation he helped her get a role as artistic icon in the thirties and forties: his ties with the artists of those years resulted in mutual cooperation as in the case of Christian Bérard and Victor Grandpierre that helped decorate his first boutique in Paris.

The exhibition is divided into two sections: the first is a collection of works and dear to the designer clothing designers like Paul Poiret and Elsa Schiaparelli stressing the deep connection between art and fashion that then the work of Christian Dior will make manifest, the second consists of a series of creations that show how the whole art of the French war, not only painting and sculpture and photography and music, deeply influenced his style since the very first collection, the New Look of 1947.

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