Musée des Arts Décoratifs: Still lingers in my head the glamorous feeling inside the museum. Looking at a long line to enter the world of Christian Dior, The Editors Club (TEC) was lucky enough to get the VIP invite to witness the genius mind’s work and his life of in the middle of Paris Fashion Week.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is presenting a unique retrospective covering seven decades of creation by the house of Dior. Thirty years ago the first exhibition focused on the ten years of Christian Dior’s creative activity, between 1947 and 1957. This time, the idea is to go beyond the founder’s initial action and to also look at the six artistic directors who followed him.

I was stunned by three hundred dresses in the display, numerous documents like sketches, photographs, manuscripts and advertisements also the object like hats, jewellery, shoes, and perfume bottles. Christian Dior was a man of truly astonishing curiosity; this exhibition represents the very essence of his inspiration.

In 1933, the gallery directed by Christian Dior’s close friend and associate Pierre Colle put on Le Surréalisme, an exhibition featuring works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Leonor Fini, and Man Ray. We could also make out Dalí’s Retrospective Bust of a Woman. I stared at this black and white areas for quiet a while, I couldn’t help but asked one of the guards to take a picture of me.

And then I went into haute couture dresses, all the art pieces and the paintings, photographs with detail information not to be missed, the very famous “jardin” collections which were so pretty you’d feel like in your own garden palace. When you enter Christian Dior “around the world”, you’d know that the world and its cultures were more than just a market, they also represented a constant source of inspiration for Christian Dior and his successors.

Of course, you wouldn’t want to miss the New Look. When Carmel Snow, the Editor in Chief of Harper’s Bazaar (1934-1958) declared, “it’s quiet a revolution, dear Christian, your dresses have such a new look!” then the long, ample skirts, a fitted waist and rounded hips, becomes icon and offers infinite possibilities.

So much of a good thing, I spent more than 2 hours admiring the opportunity to become acquainted with the man who puts Paris back in the spotlight as the capital of fashion here. Blown away section per section, and The Ball was just another level of presentation.

Christian Dior
At musée des Arts Décoratifs
Until 7 January 2018 
Tuesdays to Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Open until 9 p.m. on Thursdays
Admission fees: €11 (full price), €8,5 (concession)