Museum showcase

Museum showcase

When it opened at the Decorative Arts Museum last year, the Christian Dior: Couturier du Rêve exhibition welcomed more than 70,000 visitors in six months. Now, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London has announced that it will reprise the retrospective, but give it a distinctly British slant.

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams will run from February 2 to July 14, 2019, and will be, according to a statement released by the V&A, the "largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the House of Dior". The exhibition will trace the French luxury label's output from 1947 to the present day, including the history and impact of couturier Christian Dior and the six fashion directors who have helmed the house after him. These include Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan (who designed 12 dresses for Elizabeth Taylor in the 1960s), Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and current artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri.