Beyond the intimate setting of the fashion show, photographers portray haute couture by elevating the couturier's desire to enchant into the sublime. Great photographers, legendary images that shaped Dior's identity and recurring themes in the house's iconography, from dreams of distant places to the open-air “studios” of Paris and Versailles, appear in this panorama of more than sixty years of fashion photography.
 
 
 
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Musée Christian Dior in Granville, France, this lavish volume presents photographs that bring the dresses' character to life, each through a distinctive interpretation. Contributors include Horst P. Horst, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson, Henry Clarke, William Klein, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Sarah Moon, Paolo Roversi, Nick Knight, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Tim Walker, Willy Vanderperre, Patrick Demarchelier and many more. Glamorous and iconic, it demonstrates how Dior transcended fashion to enter the realm of legend.