"Cecil Beaton"

Christian Dior|House of Dior

spring/summer 1951 · silk, cotton · Costume Institute

"Next to his work as a fashion designer Christian loves his weekly `return to the land,'"wrote biographers Elie Raboudrin and Alice Chavane of Dior's avidity for gardening. Roses on chiffon are necessarily indistinct, like the nineteenth-century chinés, but Dior, the man passionate for flowers and fashion, could likely identify each with utmost clarity, rendered in different states of maturity.

Artist

Christian Dior|House of Dior

Date

spring/summer 1951

Medium

silk, cotton

Culture

French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Byron C. Foy, 1953