Dior Spotlights Collaboration With Peter Lindbergh in New Exhibition
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: Dior will spotlight its long-term collaboration with the late Peter Lindbergh with an exhibition featuring previously unseen prints from a shoot in Times Square involving a cast of top models and more than 80 outfits from its archives.
The show at the Galerie Dior exhibition space at the French fashion house’s historic flagship on Avenue Montaigne in Paris will feature more than 100 images taken between 1988 and 2018.
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“This artistic journey weaves a fascinating dialogue with the Dior silhouettes, offering a unique look at the expression of their architecture, essence and allure,” the brand said.
The photographer, who died in 2019, famously shot a series of Lady Dior campaigns with Marion Cotillard, including a memorable image of the French actress perched on top of the Eiffel Tower. Lindbergh also lensed a 2016 campaign for the J’adore Eau Lumière fragrance featuring Charlize Theron.
For his final project with Dior in October 2018, he enlisted the likes of Alek Wek, Karen Elson, Saskia de Brauw, Carolyn Murphy, Amber Valletta and Sasha Pivovarova to model vintage Dior creations against the bustling backdrop of New York City, mostly captured in his signature grainy black-and-white.
“While haute couture is closely linked with an idea of perfection and the mastery of every detail, I wanted to transport 70 years of Dior creations to an unexpected place,” the photographer said at the time. Christian Dior, the founder of the house, spoke of the city’s “electric air” during his first trip there in 1947.
The images show Wek mingling with the throng of pedestrians in outfits including a cream Bar jacket from 1947, or a 1997 silver lace pyramid-collared jacket and silver lamé skirt by John Galliano. Irina Shayk models an off-the-shoulder black gown designed by Gianfranco Ferré in 1991.
Lindbergh also photographed Dior looks — spanning haute couture and ready-to-wear, women’s and men’s — for publications including U.S. Vogue, Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair and Harper’s Bazaar.
“Dior/Lindbergh” is scheduled to run from Oct. 17 until May 4. A book of the same name was published by Taschen in 2019.
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