Moscow (Reuters) - the bright garden tables of European masters whipped up French Dean of the imagination of fashion Christian Dior and form a unique exhibition that opens Thursday alongside more than a hundred of his dresses.
Dior dresses bejeweled delicate and thin waisted jackets hang under the guise of mirror of the ceilings at the Museum of fine arts Pushkin State Moscow, paying tribute to the designer who died in 1957 at the age of 52 after changing the landscape for women's fashion.
"The best way to describe this exhibition is own words of Christian Dior:"the history of Parisian fashion is not a vanity fair, but a representation of the culture,"" said Museum Director Irina Antonova veteran Pushkin.
Paintings of Klimt, Renoir, van Gogh and other feeds the inspiration of Dior are loaned by the Museum of the Louvre, Orsay Museum, the Museum of Versailles and State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The exhibition "Inspiration Dior" until July 24.
"It is not easy to imagine the home of a fashion designer coming to a Museum,", said Christian Dior Chief Executive Sidney Toledano.
"But (the Pushkin Museum) was super sensitive to the combining paintings and costumes," he told Reuters next cocktail dresses green and white of the 1950s, reminiscent of the bunches of fruit by Cézanne.
He and Bernard Arnault, CEO of the LVMH - more great luxury brand and owner of Dior - travelled to Moscow with many of their models for the exhibition, which has also a facility of aromatic perfumes and designers of the world.
The sumptuous exhibition comes a month after the fashion house was engulfed in a racism scandal which led to the dismissal of its top designer John Galliano.
Toledano said a few minutes from the preview of the exhibition opening, the connoisseur art asked him to show it to New York, Rome and Paris.
"This is the first time, so several dresses, so many parts, are all set in a museum like that, which is one of the largest in the world,"he says."
The exhibition was also put in place to continue the relationship of Christian Dior with the Russia-loving luxury, which he visited in 1931, the reign of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin - a rare trip to a foreign Designer.
This beauty teaches us label, something our country lack. "It's almost a kind of school for us," actress Renata Litvinova said as she was walking alongside dresses of white ball encased in glass.
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