Dior presents Dior Couture Patrick Demarchelier

Photographs Patrick Demarchelier | Publisher Rizzoli

The meeting between a great photographer and a mythical couture house, “DIOR COUTURE PATRICK DEMARCHELIER” presents a fabulous retrospective of the Dior Haute Couture collections, from the first show in 1947 to today.

Patrick Demarchelier has always admired Dior Haute Couture. For him it is the birthplace of “unique pieces that are veritable sculptures”. He therefore wanted to pay tribute to the superlative splendour and expertise of Dior creations.  

Rendered still more sublime by Patrick Demarchelier, the designs created by Christian Dior himself and his successors, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan and John Galliano, prove to be modern and timeless: a magic that flirts with eternity. 

From Shanghai to Times Square, the grand staircase of the Paris Opera House to the garden of the Musée Rodin, places that the House of Dior treasures, Patrick Demarchelier captures all that is quintessentially Dior, personified by the most beautiful women in the world, from Charlize Theron to Gisèle Bundchen. Here the greatest talents honour the Dior legend.

KO-KO-SAN suit, Haute Couture collection spring-summer 2007 - Corset from Haute Couture collection fall-winter 2005, France dress, Haute Couture collection fall-winter 2005, Corset from Haute Couture collection fall-winter 2004

240 pages, 120 color and b/w photographs, Hard cover jacket, US : $115 / Canada : $125, UK : £70 / France : €100, November in Europe / December in US

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Haute Couture collection fall-winter 2010

Haute Couture collection fall-winter 2004 - Haute Couture collection spring-summer 2011