The exhibition "Dior Hats! The art of hats from Christian Dior to Stephen Jones" is a world first. The exceptional collection of around two hundred hats and around thirty Dior Haute Couture dresses includes pairings that create the “total look”. These are complemented by around fifty fashion photographs and beauty or make-up advertisements celebrating the art of hats. These works illustrate over 70 years of history, from 1947 to 2020, and from Christian Dior to Stephen Jones. They evoke Christian Dior’s early days as a hat designer in the 30s.

The exhibition shows how Christian Dior’s successors have brought their personal interpretations to the founder’s preferred themes, including gardens, masculine-feminine chic, exoticism, theatricality, and the taste for parties…

Part of this exhibition is devoted to the 25 years of creation by Stephen Jones as creative director of hats at Dior, in particular thanks to the loan of many documents from his personal archives. Born in 1957, the year of Dior’s death, just like him, Stephen Jones knows the importance of a hat as the finishing touch that crowns a Dior silhouette. According to Stephen Jones, the hat, like a wearable sculpture, free from any utilitarian constraints, is “the very expression of optimism”.

"Dior Hats! The art of hats from Christian Dior to Stephen Jones"
By Stephen Jones, Creative Director, and Florence Müller, Curator
from May 14 to October 30, 2022.

Musée Christian Dior
Villa Les Rhumbs
1 rue d’Estouteville
50400 Granville

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