Brooklyn Museum Will Welcome Major Dior Retrospective
Over 200 couture garments are coming to Brooklyn Museum . The retrospective will explore 70 years of history using archives photos and videos, sketches, accessories and elements of vintage perfume.
The exhibition explores Dior’s various sources of inspiration. The museum is transformed into an “enchanted garden” , includes a toile room, a tribute to Dior’s ateliers, includes separate rooms featuring dresses worn by celebrities.
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams runs at the Brooklyn Museum from September 10, 2021, through February 20, 2022. Tickets are on sale to the general public.
Riccardo Tisci shows Burberry costumes for Marina Abramović's opera “The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas”
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
Riccardo Tisci has shared on Instagram a photo of the costumes created by Burberry for the new opera by Marina Abramovich “7 Deaths of Maria Callas”.
“I am honored to be working with you on this amazing project. I am very proud of you and the fact that you remain a pioneer in this world, ”the designer wrote in a post.
The production consists of 7 legendary Callas arias, each accompanied by a short film starring Abramovic and Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe. It is dedicated to the theme of the finale of the life of the opera diva. After the death of her lover, Aristotle Onassis, in 1975, she locked herself in her apartment and two years later died of cardiac arrest, at the age of 53.
Abramovich plays Callas, and the identities of the artist and the singer merge, so it is not always clear who it is about. Defoe plays the main character's lover and killer.
The videos were recorded in Los Angeles in November 2019. The music for the opera was written by the Serbian composer Marko Nikodievich. The premiere was supposed to take place on April 11 at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, but due to the pandemic it was postponed to September 1.
Magnificent DIOR Presents "Designer Of Dreams" Exhibition Online
For those craving for cultural intermission during self isolation, Dior is bringing “Designer of Dreams” exhibition online.
Explore more than seventy years of creation with a thematic and chronological itinerary – conceived as a captivating dialogue by the two exhibition curators, Florence Müller and Olivier Gabet. And (re)discover the gracefulness of iconic haute couture designs – the virtuoso scenography recreating their sense of movement and the shows in which they were worn – as well as precious archival photographs, sketches by Monsieur Dior and his successors, previously unseen objects, accessories, paintings, a cabinet of curiosities conceived as a sweeping display of color, and much more. With the beauty of dreams more essential now than ever, fall under the spell of the wealth of enchanting treasures contained in the exhibition ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’.
