The new exhibition features hundreds of bar jackets, tea-length skirts, fantastical gowns, accessories, sketches, and photographs that span Dior's 75-plus years as a top maison
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Dior’s expansive history of couture, beauty, pop culture, and art, is now laid out in room after room of show stopping fashion at the Brooklyn Museum. The new exhibition, titledfeatures hundreds of bar jackets, tea-length skirts, fantastical gowns, accessories, sketches, and photographs that span Dior’s 75-plus years as a topkicked into high gear—the house celebrated opening day with a star-studed party.
Lorde was in attendance, as was Kacey Musgraves, wearing head-to-toe leopard print, and Brittany O’Grady offame. . Also in the mix was Dior women’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, who flew in from Paris specifically for the event. As she wandered the Beaux-Arts Court on the third floor, the designer shared a bit about the process of working with the Brooklyn Museum curators to choose the looks featured at the show.Photo by Ilya S.
The exhibition runs in a semi-circle, showing highlights from Chiuri’s current era and a particularly satisfying color-coded wall of ephemera: Rihanna’s sunglasses, red nail polish and lipstick, miniatures from
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