Christian Dior /
Martin, Richard
Christian Dior / Richard Martin and Harold Koda ; photographs by Karin L. Willis. - New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1996. - 201, [6] p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Christian Dior, ' held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 9, 1996 through March 23, 1997"--T.p. verso.
Dior's career came at the fulcrum of the twentieth century. He successfully combined the historicism of the late-nineteenth-century Belle Epoque with the aesthetic and technical innovations of his own time. In Dior's works, what outwardly seems sheer romance and poetry is strengthened by structural underpinnings that demonstrate deep knowledge of craft. And while each collection is individualized even by name, the overall work created during the eleven years Dior built his art can be seen as a unit of interwoven development. From the inception of The New Look on February 12, 1947, until the designer's death in 1957, Dior was the definitive force in fashion. In addition, his corpus was to become an overriding influence on subsequent fashion. Authors Richard Martin and Harold Koda, curator and associate curator, respectively, of The Costume Institute, present that corpus chronologically, and they also consider each piece as an artistic attainment and the whole as an artistic enterprise. Dior is viewed through his personal aesthetic: attention is paid to his deliberate stylistic evolution, his historicism, and his characteristic style gestures, called "Diorisms." Thus, Dior is reconsidered as a designer of artistic conviction and cautious style. Without denying Dior his magic, the photographs and texts in this book show him as a designer of skilled system and intelligence. The suite of more than 150 photographs, made expressly for this volume and published here for the first time, document the greatest collection of Dior's work in the world, which resides in The Costume Institute.
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Dior, Christian-- Exhibitions.
Fashion design -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Fashion -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
TT505 .M368 1996
Christian Dior / Richard Martin and Harold Koda ; photographs by Karin L. Willis. - New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1996. - 201, [6] p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Christian Dior, ' held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 9, 1996 through March 23, 1997"--T.p. verso.
Dior's career came at the fulcrum of the twentieth century. He successfully combined the historicism of the late-nineteenth-century Belle Epoque with the aesthetic and technical innovations of his own time. In Dior's works, what outwardly seems sheer romance and poetry is strengthened by structural underpinnings that demonstrate deep knowledge of craft. And while each collection is individualized even by name, the overall work created during the eleven years Dior built his art can be seen as a unit of interwoven development. From the inception of The New Look on February 12, 1947, until the designer's death in 1957, Dior was the definitive force in fashion. In addition, his corpus was to become an overriding influence on subsequent fashion. Authors Richard Martin and Harold Koda, curator and associate curator, respectively, of The Costume Institute, present that corpus chronologically, and they also consider each piece as an artistic attainment and the whole as an artistic enterprise. Dior is viewed through his personal aesthetic: attention is paid to his deliberate stylistic evolution, his historicism, and his characteristic style gestures, called "Diorisms." Thus, Dior is reconsidered as a designer of artistic conviction and cautious style. Without denying Dior his magic, the photographs and texts in this book show him as a designer of skilled system and intelligence. The suite of more than 150 photographs, made expressly for this volume and published here for the first time, document the greatest collection of Dior's work in the world, which resides in The Costume Institute.
0870998234 0870998226 9780870998225 9780870998232
Dior, Christian-- Exhibitions.
Fashion design -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Fashion -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
TT505 .M368 1996