Chanel Exhibition – Little Black Jacket

What is brand power? Brand power is making people wait outside an free entry exhibition under the scorching sun to just get inside. Then there are only prints on display which can be easily sourced online if you know where to look. Brand power is making people of general pulic queue up for a free poster per person with the Chanel logo on it. There are reasons why the big names have stopped expanding rapidly like what they used to. They can only focus more on CRM when they slow down. One word to summerise this exhibition. “Icon”

Impression Dior

Ever visited the childhood home of Christian Dior at Christian Dior Museum in Granville? Its current exhibition – Impression Dior will run till the 22nd of September 2013. 

Left: Berthe Morisot, Tulips, watercolour on paper, 1890. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. ©Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library. Right: Helvétiedance dress in white organdie, embroidered with crescent moons in blue lace and sequins. Spring-Summer 1956 Haute Couture collection, Flèche line, ©LazizHamani.

 

This new found artistic freedom has inspired Christian Dior to depict the woman as a flower with his legendary “New Look” in 1947, aimed to bring back the Belle Époque.Christian Dior’s autobiography describes the interior of the villa Les Rhumbs and devotes long passages to the cliff top garden he designed with his mother Madeleine. 

Left: Marie Bracquemond (1841-1916), Three Women with Parasols, oil on canvas. Paris, Musée d’Orsay. ©Patrice Schimdt/RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay). Right: Amber Valetta inspired by Renoir, Anna Mikhaylik inspired by Seurat and Vivienne Orth inspired by Manet models, Autumn-Winter 2007 Haute Couture collection. Christian Dior by John Galliano. ©LazizHamani

Impressions Dior establishes an interesting dialogue between more than 70 dresses with a selection of masterpieces from impressionist painters, ranging from Monet to Degas, Renoir to Berthe Morisot. Throughout this exhibition it’s possible to assert the permanent links that have woven the Maison Dior to impressionism.

Left: Berthe Morisot, Tulips, watercolour on paper, 1890. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. ©Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library. Right: Helvétiedance dress in white organdie, embroidered with crescent moons in blue lace and sequins. Spring-Summer 1956 Haute Couture collection, Flèche line, ©LazizHamani.