Now in its seventh edition, ‘Dior Lady Art‘ invites international artists to reimagine Dior’s Lady Dior handbag – one of the house’s most memorable styles
publishedThe ‘Lady Dior’ handbag – a miniature style in Dior’s signature cannage quilting, designed to be held in the hand – remains one of the house’s most memorable accessories, largely due to its patronage by Princess Diana who was first gifted the design in 1995 by then-French First Lady Bernadette Chirac. In various iterations and colours, she wore the Lady Dior numerous times in the years that followed, including to attend the Met Gala in 1996.
Its latest reinvention lies in the hands of 11 international artists – hailing from Egypt to the United States, Qatar to China – who have each put their distinct stamp on the style as part of the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art.
and John Giorno. The resulting designs are part collector’s item, part sculptural object, though remain intended for Lady Dior’s original use – to be carried as a handbag. An artisan works on artist Wang Yuyang’s design for the seventh Dior Lady Art This year’s participants include Ghada Amer , Brian Calvin , Sara Cwynar , Alex Gardner , Shara Hughes , Dorothy Iannone , Minjung Kim , Zhenya Machneva , Bouthayna Al Muftah , Françoise Pétrovitch and Wang Yuyang . ‘A meeting between Dior and the cultures of the world,’ say Dior of this latest chapter, with each artist given ‘carte blanche’ to transform the original design as they wish. ‘A tribute to singularity and savoir-faire... a celebration of jouy and freedom.
As such, each of the 11 designs offers a distinct riff on the original Lady Dior bag – from Hughes’ ‘miniature cabinet of curiosities’ to Gardner’s transposition of one of his paintings onto the bag, made three-dimensional with the use of figurative stitching across the quilted exterior.
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