A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
A recent Dior acquisition, newly minted brand ambassador Yara Shahidi’s couture look worn to the 2021 Critics Choice Awards.
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Image Credit: Jenna Greene/WWD The museum’s Beaux Arts Court was transformed into an enchanted garden.
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Image Credit: Jenna Greene/WWD Dior by John Galliano 2005 autumn-winter haute couture look paired with “Portrait of a Lady” (1912) by Giovanni Baldini.
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Image Credit: Jenna Greene/WWD New to the Brooklyn Museum is a gallery devoted to American photographers who captured the image of Dior through the years, including Richard Avedon.
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Image Credit: Jenna Greene/WWD A Christian Dior New York dress from the 1950s in front of a 1946 Charles Eames screen and the 1956 “First Personage” sculpture by Louise Nevelson.
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Image Credit: Jenna Greene/WWD Christian Dior traveled to America shortly after presenting his first haute couture collection in Paris in February 1947, which U.S. magazine editor Carmel Snow named “The New Look.”
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Image Credit: Jenna Greene/WWD Protesters greeted Christian Dior when he traveled to Chicago in 1947. They did not want to go back to pre-war fashion constraints.
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Image Credit: Jenna Greene/WWD Looks from the Christian Dior New York collection produced in New York for an American audience starting in 1948.
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A preview of the Dior Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Image Credit: Jenna Greene/WWD Dior scholar Florence Müller, Avenir Foundation Curator of Textile Art and Fashion at the Denver Art Museum, at right; and Matthew Yokobosky, senior curator of fashion and material culture at the Brooklyn Museum.