In 1947, Christian Dior revolutionized fashion with a collection whose sexy silhouettes and dropped hemlines celebrated femininity just as Europe emerged from years of the gravity and gloom of war. An exhibition commemorating seven decades of the house’s creations at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs was a sensation last year. Now, a modified version of that show, with a completely new presentation by the New York office of OMA, has opened at the Denver Art Museum (DAM).
For Dior: From Paris to the World curator Florence Müller, the choice of exhibition designer was simple. As she recalls, she was “totally captured by the beauty” of OMA’s design for Manus x Machina, the Costume Institute’s 2016 spring show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The studio dealt with the architecture of the museum in a subtle and surprising manner.”
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