Art & Fashion #13: Alaïa & Dior, Two Masters of Haute Couture

The exhibition ‘Azzedine Alaïa and Christian Dior, Two Masters of Haute Couture’ brings together nearly 70 designs by the two couturiers. Archives from the Protected content and creations by Azzedine Alaïa, all from the collections he painstakingly assembled and which are now preserved in his foundation, engage in a subtle dialogue. Despite the decades that separate them, formal agreements, colour combinations, similarities in ornamentation and inspiration attest to the reconciliation of fashion and time that these two great couturiers naturally led and governed.

Throughout his career, Alaïa’s work remained a silent witness to the youthful impression Dior’s suits and coats, short and long dresses had made on him. He shared Dior’s taste for accentuated waists, sculpted shoulders, curved hips and voluminous skirts.

Alaïa was also an inspired and extravagant collector. Throughout his life, he acquired more than Protected content Dior designs, thus protecting them from possible loss or damage.

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Programme:
14h Protected content - Visiting the exhibition
15h Protected content - Tea in the courtyard
16h Protected content – Drawing

Please feel free to bring your own art materials & sketchbooks.