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Dior Talks* is delighted to introduce its latest podcast series dedicated to the Dior Lady Art project. Tune in to hear the stories and inspirations behind a new round of artist interpretations of the House’s iconic Lady Dior bag. An iconic object of desire with an extraordinary destiny that continues to be shaped by concepts and events forever transcending the boundaries of innovation and inventiveness. Thus, since 2016, for the Dior Lady Art project, the house has given international artists carte blanche to revisit this exceptional bag, which is then transformed into a dream canvas onto which they transpose their vision, their universe, their singularity. For this ninth edition, Sara Flores, Jeffrey Gibson, Huang Yuxing, Liang Yuanwei, Danielle Mckinney, Duy Anh Nhan Duc, Hayal Pozanti, Faith Ringgold, Vaughn Spann, Anna Weyant and Woo Kukwon each take their turn in appropriating the Lady Dior as a fascinating emblem of poetic metamorphosis. An alchemical combination of Dior’s heritage and creative freedom, resonating like an ode to passion and the world’s cultures. An exceptional series hosted by the Paris-based fashion journalist Katya Foreman. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
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Dior Talks* is delighted to introduce its latest podcast series dedicated to the Dior Lady Art project. Tune in to hear the stories and inspirations behind a new round of artist interpretations of the House’s iconic Lady Dior bag. An iconic object of desire with an extraordinary destiny that continues to be shaped by concepts and events forever transcending the boundaries of innovation and inventiveness. Thus, since 2016, for the Dior Lady Art project, the house has given international artists carte blanche to revisit this exceptional bag, which is then transformed into a dream canvas onto which they transpose their vision, their universe, their singularity. For this ninth edition, Sara Flores, Jeffrey Gibson, Huang Yuxing, Liang Yuanwei, Danielle Mckinney, Duy Anh Nhan Duc, Hayal Pozanti, Faith Ringgold, Vaughn Spann, Anna Weyant and Woo Kukwon each take their turn in appropriating the Lady Dior as a fascinating emblem of poetic metamorphosis. An alchemical combination of Dior’s heritage and creative freedom, resonating like an ode to passion and the world’s cultures. An exceptional series hosted by the Paris-based fashion journalist Katya Foreman. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
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1 Sara Flores embraces Dior lady Art as a global platform for showcasing an ancestral art form 18:12
The new series of Dior Talks – hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman – is dedicated to the eagerly anticipated ninth edition of Dior Lady Art. Eleven global artists have been invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. In the latest episode, Peruvian artist Sara Flores approaches the Lady Dior as a global canvas to promote Kené, the ancient visual language of the Shipibo-Conibo people, indigenous to the Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon. Traditionally applied as body painting and on ceramic and textiles intended for clothing, using local plant-based pigments such as turmeric and annatto, the painstaking artistic practice of Kené is passed down by mothers to daughters. Flores’ intricate geometric paintings of labyrinths, images that come to her in visions triggered by psychoactive plants grown in the jungle, reflect the complex interconnected web of life found within the Amazonian rainforest. For Dior Lady Art, Flores celebrates the traditions of her people with two unique handbags directly inspired by her Kené designs, crafted from vegan pineapple leather and tocuyo cotton hand-painted with vegetal dyes. The first, a medium-sized model, features a handle adorned with a cosmic serpent, its surface sparkling with a constellation of black beads, while the second, a mini bag, is embellished with a maze of shimmering silver gems. Also embroidered with a serpentine motif, the bags convey the concept of spiritual healing through the intentional paths traced by the strokes. These remarkable pieces do more than just captivate the eye, they engage the senses, shedding light on the enduring legacy of ancient cultural traditions as they carry a message of respect for the natural world. Download the episode to learn more about Sara Flores’ universe and the Dior Lady Art experience. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
The new series of Dior Talks – hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman – is dedicated to the eagerly anticipated ninth edition of Dior Lady Art. Eleven global artists have been invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. Our latest guest, the celebrated Chinese artist Liang Yuanwei, takes the bag’s status as an emblem of artisanal craftsmanship with rich cultural connotations to new heights, interweaving references to her impasto “Golden Notes” series and Ru ware from the Song dynasty. Blending ancient and new techniques, her captivating Lady Dior resembles a porcelain object, with the artist’s textured brushstrokes evoking crackles in the glaze. Layered with symbolism, the bag’s edges in antique gold metal echo traditional gilding techniques, while its color recalls the signature celadon green shade of Ru ware. Its creation required a series of painstaking processes. The artist’s calligraphic brushstrokes, which differ in power and do not overlay the other, were reproduced in resin using a 3D printing process before being broken into pieces, like a puzzle, and then recomposed on a velvet base. Download the episode to learn more about the artist’s fascinating Dior Lady Art journey and how this experimental process, and collaborating with the House’s artisans, has impacted her creative approach. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
The new series of Dior Talks – hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman – is dedicated to the eagerly anticipated ninth edition of Dior Lady Art. Eleven global artists have been invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. For our latest guest, the American artist Vaughn Spann, collaborating on Dior Lady Art meant a change of scale. Adopting a conceptual approach, the New Jersey-based talent recalibrated details from a selection of his monumental works for three distinctive day-to-night variations of the Lady Dior that capture the signature otherworldly colors, materiality and feel of the original works. Spann’s color-blocked red and black “Flame” Lady Dior has a richly textured, fiery, volcanic feel, while for the “Dalmatian” design, gridded, spotted abstractions offer a graphic twist on the bag’s signature motifs. Meanwhile, for his “Marked Man” Lady Dior, a giant opaque “X” motif floats on a sheer pink plexiglass base topped by a retro briefcase handle, playfully blurring masculine-feminine codes. Embodying a cross-pollination of fashion and art, the contemporary creations are designed to accompany the wearer on different occasions, whether to a gala, a nightclub or on a ski trip, offering the opportunity to live with the artist’s paintings in a more compact and intimate way. Download the episode to learn more about Spann’s universe and Dior Lady Art journey. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
The new series of Dior Talks – hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman – is dedicated to the eagerly anticipated ninth edition of Dior Lady Art. Eleven global artists have been invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. A lover of nature like Monsieur Dior himself, our latest guest is the Vietnam-born, Paris-based artist Duy Anh Nhan Duc, a green-fingered poet who creates ethereal installations composed of common weeds and wildflowers, forming the essence of his enchanting universe. The artist collects them near his studio in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, focusing on the “forgotten plants” that push through the cracks of sidewalks – the type he would play with as a child – from salsifies, thistles and wheat to clover and dandelion puffballs that, when blown, disperse into an explosion of seeds. He then painstakingly dries them in his studio to use in his works, weaving a fascinating dialogue from the cycles of life, focusing on the fragility of the moment. For Dior Lady Art, the artist imprints his passion for wild plants onto a pristine white Lady Dior, fusing organic simplicity with virtuoso elegance. A profusion of plants embossed into vegan leather is enhanced by delicate embroidery, while in lieu of the iconic cannage quilting, a delicate wire trellis is partly exposed, symbolizing a garden that is open to all. Adorned with contrasting golden branches crafted from gilded metal, the bag also contains a hidden surprise: the secret talisman of a gold-embellished dandelion, captured in a drop of resin for all eternity. Download the episode to learn more about Duy Anh Nhan Duc’s remarkable vegetal artistry. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
La nouvelle série Dior Talks, présentée par la journaliste parisienne Katya Foreman, met à l'honneur la très attendue neuvième édition de Dior Lady Art. Pour l’occasion, onze artistes de renommée internationale ont été invités à réinterpréter l’emblématique sac Lady Dior et à en faire une œuvre d’art unique. Passionné de nature, tout comme Monsieur Dior, notre invité est l’artiste Duy Anh Nhan Duc, né au Vietnam et installé à Paris. Véritable poète botanique, il crée des installations éthérées en utilisant des mauvaises herbes et des fleurs sauvages, capturant l’essence d’un univers enchanteur. L’artiste récolte ces plantes oubliées autour de son atelier au Pré-Saint-Gervais, celles qui poussent entre les fissures des trottoirs et qui rappellent les jeux de son enfance. Parmi elles, salsifis, chardons, blé, trèfles et akènes de pissenlit qui, lorsqu’on souffle dessus, s’envolent en une myriade de graines. Ces végétaux sont ensuite minutieusement séchés dans son atelier avant d’être intégrés à ses œuvres, dans une exploration fascinante des cycles de la vie et de la fragilité de l’instant présent. Pour Dior Lady Art, l’artiste a transposé sa passion des plantes sauvages sur un Lady Dior immaculé, alliant simplicité organique et élégance virtuose. Une profusion de plantes en relief orne le cuir vegan, rehaussée par des broderies délicates. En lieu et place du cannage emblématique, un treillis métallique finement travaillé symbolise un jardin ouvert à tous. Le sac se pare également de branches dorées en métal précieux et cache un secret : un talisman unique, une graine de pissenlit dorée et préservée à jamais dans une goutte de résine. Découvrez cet épisode pour plonger dans l’univers fascinant de l’art végétal de Duy Anh Nhan Duc. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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The new series of Dior Talks – hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman – is dedicated to t ninth edition of Dior Lady Art. Eleven global artists have been invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. Collaborating with Dior Lady Art for a second consecutive season, artist Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and Cherokee descent, returns with a piece inspired by his 2017 punching-bag sculpture “LOVE IS THE DRUG,” themed around the complexities of loving and being loved. An advocate of artisans, materials, pattern and adornment, the New York-based artist – known for his ultra-colorful works that combine traditional Native American craftsmanship with a bold, almost psychedelic aesthetic – also plays with texts and slogans, embracing the power of speech as he celebrates the forgotten and the marginalized. Thus, his latest Lady Dior is fully beaded on one side, with the word “Love” repeated three times in a signature LCD-style font, while the other is loaded with over 70 jangling 3D-printed hearts. “Being a person of color traveling around the world – I’ve lived in London, South Korea, Germany and different states in the United States – I think I’ve really always paid attention to how people dress themselves and adorn themselves,” says the artist. “I’m really interested in different kind of movements, whether it’s feminist movements, LGBTQ movements or Indigenous liberation movements, and the ways that we codify that in how we dress.” Download the episode to learn more about Jeffrey Gibson’s fascinating universe. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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The new series of Dior Talks – hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman – is dedicated to the eagerly anticipated ninth edition of Dior Lady Art. Eleven global artists have been invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. Our latest guest is artist Hayal Pozanti, who explores dreaming as a collective power to create a new reality. The Turkish-born, US-based artist lives in Manchester in rural Vermont, a town surrounded by forest-covered mountains, endless lakes and rivers and waterfalls and greenery. Drawing on the tradition of plein air painting, Pozanti creates preliminary pastel sketches during hikes which she transforms into large-scale landscapes, painting with oil sticks, her fingers, her hands and body. The artist draws upon her experiences of the natural world, her dreams and her intuitions, directing the gaze towards a fictional elsewhere that feels irresistibly real. For Dior Lady Art, Pozanti has created three Lady Dior bags inspired by her art and travels into the heart of the mountains. The first two designs feature details drawn from her passion for trekking: sheepskin inserts reminiscent of the lining of hiking boots, custom carabiners hand-crafted by the Dior Ateliers and feet recalling the star-shaped tips of walking poles. The iconic “D, I, O, R” charms are translated into hieroglyphs conceived by the artist. Based on a painting Pozanti created on a beach during a full moon, the third model is a clutch painted with a nocturnal panorama and embroidered with comet-like trails of rhinestones; the interior is covered with mirrors, offering a reflection of oneself and the earth. “It's a painting that encompasses all that is magic about our world,” says the artist. Download the episode to learn more about Hayal Pozanti’s fascinating universe. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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1 Artist Xu Zhen reinvents the Lady Dior: invitation to discover his unique imagination revisiting the spirit of this iconic object of desire 15:27
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series dedicated to the eighth edition of Dior Lady Art, hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this highly-anticipated edition, 12 artists from around the world were invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. With his 360-degree vision of the art world, as a gallerist and curator, our latest guest, the renowned Chinese contemporary artist Xu Zhen, combines installation, video, painting and performance in a singular, inventive universe that explores subjects ranging from socio-political taboos to consumerism and the principles of the art market. The artist’s fascinating works subvert – not without irony – notions of artisanship and originality (relative to mass production), as well as concepts of ownership and globalization in the digital age. He thwarts and questions their effects on the art market, making visible certain dissonances and the resulting absence of logic. For Dior, the conceptual artist, who has exhibited at a number of prestigious art institutions and biennales internationally, including the Venice Biennale, MoMA PS1 in New York and the Hayward Gallery in London, wanted to reflect on the value and meaning of discourse. Inspired by his “Metal Language” series – and made of transparent plexiglass and mirror-effect printed fabric – his two versions of the Lady Dior are adorned with golden and silver phrases and exclamations applied on a reflective surface to evoke a screen. The words are edged with gold and silver chains, like speech bubbles, serving as symbols of the emptiness of a language that no longer has any real functionality. Tune in to the episode to learn more about the artist’s playful and thought-provoking concept behind the bags. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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1 Artist Mircea Cantor revisits the Lady Dior through an entrancing interplay of optical effects, textures and perspectives 22:07
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series dedicated to the eighth edition of Dior Lady Art, hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this highly-anticipated edition, 12 artists from around the world were invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. In this new episode, we immerse ourselves in the poetic universe of Mircea Cantor, an internationally renowned Romanian artist whose works, suspended between dream and reality, lucidly reflect his commitment to contemporary society. Cantor’s singular vision is embodied in a polymorphous practice that utilizes a variety of media, such as video, animation, sculpture, drawing, photography and performance but also collaborations with artisans for the conception of unprecedented installations, with a view to broadening the field of knowledge through this savoir-faire. Awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2011, his works are presented in prestigious international collections, notably the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. The artist’s protean approach plays out in two Lady Dior creations that feature bewitching optical effects, textures and perspectives. Dressed by turns in black or beige leather, they are adorned with captivating embroidery evoking the beauty of the garden of Eden, filled with flowers of every variety, inspired by a traditional gilet from western Romania. In contrast, the graphic lines of the bag’s cannage motif are highlighted by leather cord, an essential element of embroidery and leatherwork symbolizing connection, transmission and continuity. Completing the designs, the handles bear the words “make heaven out of what you have” – in French, English and Romanian – a true artist’s manifesto, while the charms are reinvented in an elaborate golden version, borrowed from the lexicon of jewelry. As a finishing touch, the inside of each bag contains a hand-designed silk scarf signed by Cantor as well as a logbook annotated by the artist. Tune in to the episode to learn more about the genesis of this exceptional project. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series dedicated to the eighth edition of Dior Lady Art, hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this highly-anticipated edition, 12 artists from around the world were invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique work of art. In this latest episode, we plunge into the esoteric, cosmic universe of Mariko Mori. Operating in another realm spanning the past, present and future, the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist through her futuristic multidisciplinary works blurs the lines between art and technology, exploring themes including life, death and rebirth, prehistory, the cosmos and spirituality. For Dior Lady Art, Mori used her signature dichroic vacuum deposition and lenticular techniques to take the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a new dimension, harnessing her mastery of light, which she describes as “an inner source for all living things.” Seemingly inhabited by light which shifts as the bag is moved, the first of three bags features an inner landscape inspired by the ālaya, the eighth consciousness in Buddhism. The second – in a small format – celebrates Dior heritage through an emblematic white bow made from an innovative fabric that lights up in an array of select colors in a crafted sequence. The final design with its compact, minaudière dimensions, resembles a rainbow-colored bubble, evoking a space-time capsule on which the "O" of the "D.I.O.R." charms is transformed into a model of the artist’s monumental sculptural installation, “Ring: One With Nature.” As a final surprise, the bags’ interiors are dressed in a unique shade of delicate pink, heightening the bag’s feminine essence. Tune in to the episode to learn more about the artist’s fascinating world. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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1 Artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan reinvents the Lady Dior, an invitation to her powerful yet delicate universe 23:54
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series dedicated to the eighth edition of Dior Lady Art, hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this highly-anticipated edition, 12 artists from around the world were invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. Known for her colorful, lush, light and airy botanical paintings, our latest guest artist, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, much like Monsieur Dior in his time, has a passion for flora and fauna. Through her visually striking abstract works, the multifaceted British artist questions norms and celebrates singularities, recounting the present through a reading of the past. Switching scales, for Dior Lady Art, the London-based artist wanted to immortalize a site-specific curved mural she made in 2022 for a new LGBTQ+ art hub created by Queercircle, London. Titled “Let Me Hold You”, the monumental work, which covered the entire space, symbolized holding the community, creating a sense of sanctuary for visitors. Playing with texture, patterning, fabrics and beading, and incorporating her signature collage technique, the artist transposed parts of the mural onto two unprecedented versions of the Lady Dior handbag. Using Dior savoir-faire of excellence, precious embroideries reproduce the effects of materials adorning the artist’s paintings, including ceramic pansy petals reinterpreted as metal adornments punctuating one of the exceptional models in a poetic deep blue shade. The emblematic ‘D.I.O.R.’ charms are in turn revisited, sometimes in deep black, sometimes embellished with a leaf. Odes to the beauty of gestures play out in a powerful yet delicate universe imbued with messages of love and acceptance. Tune in to the episode to learn more about the artist’s fascinating world. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series dedicated to the eighth edition of Dior Lady Art, hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this highly-anticipated edition, 12 artists from around the world were invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique piece of art. Bringing the joyous vibrancy of her work to the Lady Dior universe, LA-based artist Hilary Pecis is known for her color-drenched contemporary still-lifes capturing domestic settings, filled with cats, vases of flowers, stacks of books and other signs of everyday life, with references to art history. Her streetscapes and landscapes are imbued with the special light and visual codes of California. The artist approached the Lady Dior handbag as a three-dimensional canvas surface. Using the virtuoso savoir-faire of the Dior ateliers, she reinterpreted one of her paintings, “Botanical Garden,” depicting a lily pond and reflections from a domed glass ceiling. An ode to the beauty of the plant world so dear to Christian Dior, Pecis’s Lady Dior is festooned with white lotuses and lily pads embroidered with a textured profusion of beads, sequins and rhinestones in all shades of green, as if they were growing off the bag, while the handle has a delightful organic “wobbliness” to it. The velvet-lined creation with its 3D volumes and ornate preciousness also holds personal symbolism, with tributes to her grandmother’s collection of costume jewelry and accessories which she liked to dress up in as a child. “She also had an incredible handbag collection and I wanted to reimagine a Dior bag that would appeal to my six-year-old self and me today, as well as my grandma if she were still alive,” says Pecis. Tune in to the episode to learn more about the artist’s colorful universe and the inspirations behind her Lady Dior bags. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series dedicated to the eighth edition of Dior Lady Art, hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this highly-anticipated edition, 12 artists from around the world were invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique work of art. “Class at its highest standard” is how our latest guest, Ludovic Nkoth, describes the Lady Dior. The New York-based artist, who was born and raised in Cameroon and moved to the United States at 13, is known for his intimate, vibrant, densely impastoed portraits that explore themes including the Black experience, displacement, the idea of self, power and culture. For Dior Lady Art, Ludovic Nkoth blends references to his “System” series with emblems evoking the history of Cameroon on striking black and white versions of the ‘Lady Dior.’ Like a secret gallery, the bags’ flaps open to reveal a lining bearing a grid of faces, while the iconic cannage quilting is dotted with red and black cowrie shells, which served as currency in pre-colonial Cameroon. Revealing a number of precious details borrowed from jewelry-making savoir-faire, small golden metal masks become charms on these captivating pieces that offer a window into his world. Tune in to the episode to hear all about the stories and symbols behind the artist’s powerful Lady Dior creations. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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1 Artist Jeffrey Gibson takes part in the VIIIth edition of Dior Lady Art, a passionate tribute to audacity 23:50
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series dedicated to the eighth edition of Dior Lady Art, hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this highly-anticipated edition, 12 artists from around the world were invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique work of art. Bridging heritage and reinvention, New York-based Jeffrey Gibson dreams up multicolored works fusing traditional Native American craft techniques with a bold, almost psychedelic Pop aesthetic. Influenced by his peripatetic childhood, the multimedia artist curates a mash-up of aesthetic references, ranging from queer aesthetics to fashion, while exploring the power of the spoken word through phrases that resonate with his world, celebrating the forgotten and the marginalized through the prism of art. Adorned with patterned beadwork, partly inspired by the artist’s iconic punching bag series, and tagged with the phrase “I can do whatever I choose,” the Lady Dior takes on an object sculpturalness. Working with Dior’s petites-mains, Gibson used a mix of glass and beadwork of varying sizes to achieve different textures, offset with fluorescent neoprene and netting, while the handles are covered in rhinestones that give a Sixties vibe. A second small-format version of the iconic bag is embroidered with a face, the artist’s emblem, with a stone for a nose, a 3D-printed shell mouth, and beaded eyes using elements from West Africa. The “D.I.O.R.” charms metamorphose into giant pixels, materializing the link between past and present. An extension of his artistic universe, the Lady Dior in Gibson’s hands transforms into a multicolored totem for exploring the cultural realities of modern life, in a masterful mélange of narratives and references. Tune in to the episode for a deep dive into his universe. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series dedicated to the eighth edition of Dior Lady Art, hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this highly-anticipated edition, 12 artists from around the world were invited to transform the iconic Lady Dior handbag into a unique work of art. In this episode, we enter the universe of London-based Canadian-Korean artist Zadie Xa, a transporting, enigmatic world informed by notions of self and Xa’s experiences within the Korean diaspora. Influences range from folklore, speculative fiction and systems of power to the supernatural, ancient religions and the climate crisis. For her multi-media installations, the artist often incorporates richly patterned garments, mixing streetwear codes with nods to ceremonial wear and ancestral traditions. For Dior Lady Art, Xa dreamed up four bags featuring vibrant geometric patchworks inspired by pojagi , a traditional Korean wrapping cloth, as well as ornate mother-of-pearl applications that pay tribute to the ancient Korean handicraft of najeonchilgi . Rings of mother-of-pearl edged with flames give onto scenes depicting animals often found in her work, such as the fox, the orca and the seagull, here holding a small planet in its beak. Tune in to the episode to hear more about the artist’s colorful and layered Dior Lady Art creations. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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1 Françoise Pétrovitch S'exprime sur la Poésie et le Professionnalisme de son Aventure Dior Lady Art 17:30
Bienvenue dans la série de podcasts Dior Talks ayant pour thème la septième édition du Dior Lady Art et animée par la journaliste, basée à Paris, Katya Foreman. Pour l'événement de cette année, 11 artistes du monde entier se sont prêtés au jeu de la métamorphose en transformant l'iconique sac à main Lady Dior en une œuvre d'art unique. Pour ce dernier épisode, nous plongeons dans l'univers de Françoise Pétrovitch pour découvrir son parcours d'artiste et les influences de son enfance passée à Chambéry, une ville alpine du sud de la France. "J'ai toujours considéré les beaux-arts comme une sorte de Graal, quelque chose d'extraordinaire. Mais je n'ai pas eu cette formation", explique l'artiste qui, depuis les années 1990, produit l'une des œuvres les plus puissantes de la scène artistique française. Chez Françoise Pétrovitch, tout commence par un dessin, son univers s'étendant également à la céramique, aux lavis d'encre, au verre, à la peinture, à la gravure et à la vidéo. Les sujets abordés vont de la fragilité de la nature et du corps à l'intimité entre les personnes et aux raisons psychologiques qui peuvent nous rapprocher. Pour ce projet, l'artiste a abordé le Lady Dior comme une sculpture, réinterprétant à l'encre le motif de cannage caractéristique du sac, et utilisant l'oiseau, symbole de liberté et de fragilité, comme un accent décoratif ludique, appliqué, par exemple, sur le cuir par une technique de sérigraphie, ou s’envolant sur des breloques pour ajouter un côté ludique et pop. La couleur se joue dans des diffusions en dégradé, comme des taches d'encre, ainsi que sur des doublures métalliques qui invitent à une réflexion sur l'intimité et l'intériorité. " J'ai essayé de retrouver dans le cuir et l'imprimé la même qualité que celle que j'ai dans mes dessins. Donc ici, nous cherchions vraiment des juxtapositions de couleurs. C'était professionnel et en même temps très poétique, ce que j'adore", explique Pétrovitch. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. In this episode we’ll be hearing from Qatari artist Bouthayna Al Muftah, a multidisciplinary artist whose universe centres on the collective memory of her country and the people who shaped it through oral history, song, poetry and folklore. The artist’s methods range from painting to photography, printmaking, photographic performance series and video as well as typographic work linked to archiving the past. For her reinterpretation of the Lady Dior bag, Al Muftah, an alumna of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar who was tapped to design the Official Poster for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, explored the idea of a conceptual book taking shape. Chiffon is the dominant material, printed with Arabic typography using words from folkloric songs and poetry. “With my work I always talk about how we carry our memories with us, how we become our memories and how we wear them, as well as how relics carrying those stories can be passed down in families,” says the artist. “Here, the bag is also an object that is being passed down, that holds memories and carries them.” Tune into the episode to learn more about this poetic Dior Lady Art journey from the artist herself. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Industrial wastelands, obsolete machines and anthropomorphic forms meet the slow art of tapestry weaving in the world of Paris-based Russian artist Zhenya Machneva, our latest guest. Using black and white drawings the artist embraces her painterly approach to colour as the works come to life on the loom. A graduate of the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Machneva, who specializes in textiles, attributes her fascination with relics of desolate industrial landscapes to a visit to a factory where her grandfather worked for 40 years, where the machines resembled sculptures. Playing on geometric forms inspired by Brutalism, Modernism and Constructivism, this mood carries over to her three architectural Lady Dior bags which she conceived as sculptures, or art objects, positioned on metal structures. Being invited to reinterpret this iconic bag stirred a lot of questions on what it means to be a woman for the artist, with contrasting “soft and gentle” tapestry-inspired accents symbolizing a woman’s lifestyle and load. “These bags collect in themselves all of my fields of inspiration, from architecture to women’s lives,” says the artist who approached the project as a synthesis of art and design, experimenting with colour and composition to create something new. Tune into the episode to learn more about her fascinating world. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Drawing on his life experience growing up in a mixed-race family, universal representations of the human experience remain central to the work of rising Californian artist Alex Gardner. “I really wanted to make this generic avatar of a person that is sans identity,” says the artist whose stylized figurative paintings portray androgynous, featureless Black subjects. Here, the artist chose to reinterpret his work ‘Malleability,’ depicting a hand pressing down on an ambiguous part of another figure. “I was thinking about how easy it is to manipulate and get in the heads and control the actions of people,” says Gardner. “Fashion, for instance, has a lot of influence on culture, and then for anyone who wears the bag, it’s the influence they may feel they have on the room.” Maintaining the bag’s silhouette and form, the artist, whose inspirations range from 16th century European art to movies, chose to experiment with materials. The bag’s lining is in a blazing shade of cadmium red and the exterior features a pearlescent, holographic molded leather suggesting draped fabric, while the body parts are in contrasting matte black velvet. Being approached to participate in Dior Lady Art proved a creative curveball for the artist who is hoping to do more functional objects and three-dimensional work. Concludes Gardner: “It was actually the perfect timing to face the challenge of making this very cool art object, but also maintaining a lot of functionality because, at the end of the day, I do want people to be able to use it as a bag. So, that push and pull.” Tune into the episode to learn more about the artist’s fascinating universe. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, and based in Brooklyn, New York, our latest guest, Sara Cwynar, is fascinated by the visual politics of popular images, how they infiltrate our consciousness, and how images and objects change in value over time. Themes range from feminism to consumer culture. The self-taught artist started out working as a graphic designer for the New York Times Magazine, going on to graduate with an MFA in photography from Yale. Drawn to create art, she started out making works in her parents’ garage, creating compositions using sourced images and objects found in drawers or the local dollar store. Kitsch is a recurring source of inspiration, drawing on everything from costumes worn as a competitive figure skater during her childhood to the theories of Roland Barthes and Milan Kundera, who in his seminal work, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” explores kitsch as something more sinister that takes on existential meaning. Cwynar’s large red Lady Dior in quilted leather is covered in patches of images sourced from museum archives and art history books, interspersed with stock photos depicting everything from birds to lips, the latter revisited in a 3D print by the Dior team. “I wanted to make a kind of encyclopedic object, a mini history, that someone carries around on their arm,” says the artist. On a smaller bag in mustard yellow, photo patches are encapsulated in a second transparent skin forming the iconic ‘cannage’ pattern. Inside, the lining is covered in a picture of blue sky and clouds, with this idea that “You enter the bag and then you go into another world.” Tune into the episode to learn more about her fascinating world. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. First approached to collaborate with Dior for the Art'N Dior exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning in Shenzhen, Shanghai, in 2021, Wang Yuyang for this new intimate project revisiting the Lady Dior through his world explores his fascination with the moon. Using medium, small and mini formats, the bags feature recreations of the moon and the lunar surface using an array of traditional techniques and tactile effects including embroidery and inlay. His five creations include a black Lady Dior with a white moon motif masterfully recreating the look of the artist’s installation ‘Artificial Moon,’ here reinterpreting the moon’s cold white light using bead and sequin embroidery made by the Dior petites mains. Using a 3D printing technique, a pink bag, meanwhile, features a colourful surface evoking lunar craters, playing on the roughness and unevenness of leather. For the latter, Wang donned digital glasses that render the colours in black and white, creating a random colour palette that the artist himself only got to discover upon removing them. Tune into the episode to hear more about his fascinating world. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. For this latest episode we plunge into the universe of Françoise Pétrovitch to learn about her artist journey and childhood influences growing up in Chambery, an alpine town in the south of France. “I always regarded fine arts as a kind of Holy Grail, something amazing. But I didn't have that training,” says the artist who since the 1990s has produced one of the most powerful bodies of work on the French art scene. With Pétrovitch, it all starts with a drawing, with her universe also extending to ceramics, ink washes, glass, painting, print and video. Subjects range from the fragility of nature and the body to intimacy between people and the psychological reasons that may draw us together. The artist for this project approached the Lady Dior as a sculpture, reinterpreting the bag’s signature cannage motif in ink, and using the bird, a symbol of freedom and fragility, as a playful decorative accent, applied using a screen-printing technique on leather, for instance, or blown up on charms to add a fun, pop edge. Colour plays out in gradient diffusions, like ink stains, as well as on metallic linings that invite a reflection on intimacy and interiority. “I tried to find the same quality in leather and print that I have in my drawings. So there, we were really looking at colour juxtapositions. It was professional and at the same time very poetic, which I love,” says Pétrovitch. Tune into the episode to learn more about her fascinating world. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Hanji paper, watercolor painting and calligraphy with all its rituals, including breathwork and “the power of the breath that goes through your brush,” are among the key influences of our latest guest artist, Minjung Kim, celebrating the joys of silence and simplicity. Using ink and paper, the South Korean artist with her delicately complex collage designs based on layered, overlapping compositions, creates spatial illusions. Kim, who works between Italy, France and America, moved to Milan to study art in the early Nineties. Western influences, from Lucio Fontana to the materials and compositions of the Arte Povera movement, infuse her work. Nature is another major inspiration for the artist who likes to work where she is able to “see green or the sky.” The artist has reinterpreted three of her works for Dior Lady Art. On one bag, blocks of coloured mink recreate the work ‘Story’ inspired by the artist’s library in Milan, also reinterpreted in a smaller embroidered crystal version. A white bag adorned with delicate silk organza pleats recalls ‘The Street,’ which captures the idea of looking down from a building onto a sea of paper umbrellas. ‘Red Mountains,’ meanwhile, is based on an ink and watercolor work created by the artist on Hanji paper. The piece was inspired by the tides and the sound of water but, once flipped upside down, evokes a mountain range. Myriad storylines and cultures interweave in a meeting of fashion and art. “The beautiful thing is, through art, we are connected spiritually without explaining it,” says the artist. “Surely, someone will take the bag and feel something different than with an industrially-made bag. I hope they can feel my spirit and love of nature.” Tune into the episode to learn more about her fascinating world. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. “It was really about finding the perfect image,” says our latest guest, Brian Calvin, a California-based contemporary artist known for his large-scale paintings of women. Human features serve as building blocks for this influential artist who uses painting as a way to process the world around him from the most banal, such as going to the grocery store and meeting someone, to “seeing whatever Hollywood is putting out there.” In his captivating works, recurring compositional elements like lips and eyes take on extra significance, like portals evoking prehistoric or Egyptian art. Cue ‘Backstage,’ which served as the inspiration for the artist’s large Lady Dior bag, revisited with intricate beading and embroidery to rich, tactile effect. On one side, curtains of hair reveal a simplified and abstracted eye, while the other features three female figures; two in profile and one where only a large eye is visible. “The paintings are often staring you down,” explains Calvin. “They’re looking right back at you, and the bags are doing that, too. Wherever you go, on some level, these eyes are going to be following you.” His smaller bag, meanwhile, features a head lying down, like a landscape, lending a daydreamer quality with the hair going all the way around the bag. “In its own way, it’s like a rolling hillside, a little pastoral,” says the artist. Tune into the episode to hear Calvin discuss transposing his world onto the 3D Lady Dior, and his thoughts on the symbiosis of fashion and art. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. “As a painter, you’re asking somebody to enter into your world,” says our latest guest, Shara Hughes. With her vibrant, imaginary, psychological landscapes, the Brooklyn-based painter likes to “go to the edge of something without explaining everything all of the way,” encouraging the viewer to stretch their own imagination. Her zeitgeist works convey a future that feels hopeful and exciting yet tinged with a feeling of uneasiness. Hughes for her two creations explores the Lady Dior bag as a vessel, playing on the idea of seeing something from the outside and the inside at the same time. Portals give onto strange landscapes, “like a looking glass into another world.” “Although it's not hand-painted, there is still something very handmade about them and coming straight from my ideas to the bag,” says the artist. Based on her work ‘Prelude to the Future,’ the artist’s red Lady Dior bag explores the idea of an unknown future. Crafted from red velvet that absorbs light, the bag features a central strip adorned with a lush field of colourful, shiny flowers. “Maybe you would wear this on the red carpet,” says Hughes. “There's, like a bright red kind of curtain that gives you…an opening into this other world…like a portal into another world that is even better than where you are right now, standing as the viewer looking inside.” Covered in a tactile 3D rosebush embroidered with glittering beads, a multicoloured bag is based on a smaller painting titled ‘Midnight Hike.’ In the centre, a porthole opens onto a rocky, bushy landscape giving onto the sea, with a moon rising or setting in the background. “It's very green and gloomy, as if you are on a midnight hike,” says Hughes. Tune into the episode to learn all about Hughes’ fascinating universe and hear her take on the Dior Lady Art experience and “how fashion can be seen as art, not just something you wear every day.” Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Born in Cairo, Egypt, raised in France and now based out of Harlem, New York, artist Ghada Amer — the first Egyptian artist to participate in the project — drew on her anger at women’s exclusion from the history of art to develop her own language of painting based on embroidery. The feminist artist, whose universe celebrates women, women's bodies, and women's rights, and whose mediums range from sculpture to gardening, describes her Lady Dior designs as “protest” pieces. “That was more interesting for me than just making a beautiful bag,” says Amer who took inspiration from a garden installation titled ‘Women’s Qualities,’ created in different renditions for different locations around the world. For the project, the artist used flowers and plants to spell out different qualities used to describe women that she gathered during polls with locals, forming “sculpture gardens.” A selection of these words, including ‘strong,’ ‘resilient’ and ‘determined,’ are embroidered on her Lady Dior bags. One features a textured inside-out effect inspired by the tactile nature of her works. “I want women to feel all of these qualities. For me, it's important to be empowered,” says Amer. “A bag is a very important object for a woman. It's with her all the time when she's outside. And when you are outside, you are the most vulnerable. So, it's important to always remember these qualities.” The bags’ handles, meanwhile, are based on the artist’s ‘Thought Series’ which featured sculptures created with her left hand. “They are colourful and abstract; they look like my thoughts,” says the artist whose name features in the bags’ iconic charms. Tune into the episode to learn more about her fascinating world. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Our latest guest, emerging Korean artist Gigisue, combines painting, drawing and video to create singular installations merging figurative and abstract art and personal and political themes. Through her works, she seeks to resolve her own emotional conflicts, notably her relationship with her father, to explore the impact of patriarchy and capitalist society on family ties. Her work reflects happy memories while highlighting the difference between ideals and reality. A captivating personality and a rising star on the global art scene, Gigisue has participated in contemporary art fairs in Paris, Seattle and Los Angeles. At the 313 Art Project gallery in Seoul in 2018, she presented a solo exhibition entitled Father Still Life, based on a series of still-lifes themed around love and anguish. For Dior, she reinvents the Lady Dior as an embroidered painting with eclectic motifs. Festooned with silk flowers, the bags are embellished with clusters of skyward-reaching crystals that capture the light, while finishing details include an embroidered shoulder strap and artfully reworked ‘Dior’ lucky charms. “Through my project, I experienced the beauty of art fusing with fashion as well as the importance of a brand like Dior supporting young artists' creations,” says the artist who in this fascinating podcast talks about the therapeutic creative experience of participating in Dior Lady Art during the pandemic. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Renowned Japanese artist Yukimasa Ida approached the emblematic bag as a sculpture, recreating the impasto technique that is essential to his oil paintings on its surface. Sensitive to art from an early age, Ida grew up in the studio of his sculptor father, where his creative vision was awakened. Bridging abstraction and realism, the artist’s universe is inspired by the Japanese concept Ichi-go-ichi-e, ‘exalting the present moment.’ Through an accumulation of intense colors and material effects, using paints, color pigments and minerals from the earth, his works provoke a vivid and instantaneous emotion. Fascinated by the passage of time, the artist constantly questions the subtleties of existence and exalts the wonder of encounters. Tune in to hear more about the universe of this influential artist who featured in the September 2018 edition of Forbes Japan’s ‘30 Under 30’ list and his painterly reinterpretation of the Lady Dior. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the emblematic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. This episode is dedicated to leading contemporary Chinese painter Li Songsong. After revisiting the Lady Dior for the first time in 2008 in the form of a monumental neon sculpture exhibited at the UCCA in Beijing, the artist once again reinvents the House icon. For this new collaboration, Li adapted one of his printed works, Swordsmanship (III), in three different sizes, each enhanced by a subtle patchwork of colors and materials. As singular as they are complementary, when assembled the bags reconstitute the original work in its entirety like an audacious triptych. Through thickly-painted surfaces representing themes from modern and contemporary Chinese history, Li questions the fluctuating objectivity of memory and souvenirs. Inspired by images from advertising to cinema, Li’s works feature cut-out scenes. The sections, in a range of colors and textures symbolize the multiplicity of perceptions of a same theme, a signature that the Chinese artist reaffirms in his interpretation of the iconic bag. Tune in to the episode to hear all about Li’s painterly Dior Lady Art journey. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Playfully blurring fashion and art through his vivid and joyful artistic lens, German artist Leonhard Hurzlmeier adorns the Lady Dior with a female face, while the inside of the bag holds her brain. A second version reveals a rain cloud that turns into a shimmering sun, while on a third bag a sequin-embroidered mermaid’s tail vanishes between the front and back of the creation, like a metaphor for an enchanted odyssey. The artist’s brightly colored pieces play with shapes and curves notably to present a pluralistic femininity ... and not without a certain derision. Provocative and ambiguous but always humorous, his portraits are a panorama of current debates on identity and gender. Tune in to this episode to learn more about Hurzlmeier’s world and his experience collaborating on the Dior Lady Art project, transposing his works onto a 3D space. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Japan’s Daisuke Ohba for his creations researched Monsieur Dior's life, birthplace and upbringing, seeking thematic similarities with his own universe. References range from nature, toys and gadgets from the artist’s childhood to portable electronic games from the ‘90s. The artist’s singular signature asserts itself through hypnotic illusions, created using pearlescent paint and pigments with holographic effects. His textured paintings feature iridescent reflections and moving colors that shift depending on the light and the viewer's position. Adorned with a disc engraved with grooves, Obah’s M bag features holographic pigments that change into iridescent colors when light shines on them, creating a fluid geometric form of glow and color recalling the moon. A digital charm allows the viewer to observe the painting with different lighting; an invitation to interact with the iconic bag. Meanwhile MAY stands out for its arcing lines created with whirling spinning tops, offset by droplets of paint recalling shooting stars or plant vines. Adorned with pearlescent pigments, two other models inspired by his work SPECTRUM resemble an imperfect checkerboard pattern, evoking a Japanese garden or waves. The first, in embossed leather, is a near-perfect reproduction of the expression and rich colors of its brushstrokes, while the second, in knit embroidered with shiny threads and glass beads, reflects the House’s couture savoir-faire. Accompanying them is an elliptic snowdome in which a Dior ship poetically sails – extending the homage to the landscapes of Monsieur Dior’s childhood in Normandy. Tune in to the episode to hear all about Ohba’s otherworldly artistic universe and how he interpreted it for Dior Lady Art. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. “On one hand, I wanted to give the Lady Dior transparency, to expose it. On the other, I wanted to give it suppleness through the impression of draping and dressing it in a swirling, moving painting,” says multidisciplinary French artist Antonin Hako who for his “bag in flight” sought to reinterpret the Lady Dior as a symbol of liberty and lightness. Crafted from a translucent resin evoking glass, the eye-catching creation is draped in a resin overlay adorned with bold patterns created using state-of-the-art technology. Fueled by a vision of perpetual movement inspired by the skateboarding culture of his youth, Hako’s work has a singular energy characterized by bright colors and freedom of form and expression, from the canvas to flags, hot-air balloons and “frozen draperies.” This fascinating artist sees his paintings as portals into another reality where everything is possible. Tune in to the episode to hear all about his Dior Lady Art experience. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. “The Lady Dior for me symbolizes craft, timelessness and style that transcends the everyday fluidity of fashion. It’s also part of a historical canon within the brand, so it’s a piece that I was very excited to play with for all those reasons,” says our latest guest on the podcast series, British-Liberian artist Lina Iris Viktor. The artist through her work, which is characterized by dark canvases enhanced by layers of light, explores the socio-political and spiritual symbolism of the colors black and gold. Viktor’s multidisciplinary approach, an interweaving of ancient and contemporary arts, has led her to combine painting, sculpture, performance and photography with a gilding technique using 24-carat gold. In her captivating Lady Dior creations, the flora-themed visual scape of the artist’s The Dark Continent series merges with the gold symbology of Constellations. Evoking a starry sky and a lush landscape, handmade antique gold-plated bronze ornaments which include moons, stars and alligators created using delicate goldsmithing techniques, constellate five models crafted in canvas and lizard skin in shades of green, black and blue. In such a particular context, the Dior Lady Art project for Viktor presented a challenge to test new visual territory unexplored in her creative practice, as well as an opportunity to work with “creative visionaries and artisans at the top of their craft with expert skill in translating a unique vision.” Bridging fashion and art, it also opened up the chance to experience how her art can be translated across mediums, spectrums, and forms. Tune in to the episode to hear all about Viktor’s personal experience of the Dior Lady Art journey. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Returning to the Dior Lady Art series for her second consecutive turn, LA-based artist Gisela Colón transforms the Lady Dior handbag into an exceptional work celebrating the splendor of ancient Egypt. The artist’s starting point was a monumental sculpture she created for the Forever is Now contemporary art exhibition held at the Giza Plateau this fall, organized by Art D’Égypte. Entitled Eternity Now and measuring 30 feet in length and eight feet in height, the spectacular piece was positioned at the foot of the Great Sphinx. Crafted from embossed gold metallized leather inspired by the rich gold cross-hatching pattern on King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus, her mesmerizing Lady Dior Egypt bag boasts as its centerpiece an Eye of Horus carved from a blood-red garnet surrounded by rings of lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise. These emulate the curved rows of gemstones found on the sarcophagus’ gold chest plate. “Unearthed from its storied past, this antique treasure is metaphorically rediscovered as a contemporary talismanic jewel for our present time,” says Colón who also sought to channel the “feminized energy” of powerful female pharaohs such as Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra into the bag. She cites among influences the current work of Maria Grazia Chiuri at Dior bringing to the forefront female power and feminism as well as Monsieur Dior and his fascination for the magical world of tarot, fortune readings, and the divination of the future through planetary activity and lucky stars. Concludes Colón: “In a nod to the powerful forces of the cosmos, the Lady Dior Egypt bag harbors the mystique of the fortuneteller’s crystal oculus, embodying this magical celestial energy.” Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. “A sculpture to be worn, to be transformed,” says our latest guest Johan Creten of his reinvented Lady Dior handbags, poetically entitled Love Games and imagined as symbols of a more respectful world. Known for his work in ceramics and allegorical sculpture imbued with mystery, the Belgian-born artist looked to one of his favorite symbols, the bee, a symbol of utopian society, for his Dior Lady Art creations. On an earthy brown suede leather base, a decoration of sand sealed with glossy resin evoking clay is adorned with a swarm of golden bees. This removable plastron reflecting the sculptor's fascination for the noble insect transforms the signature Dior ‘cannage’ motif into a precious ornament. A second royal blue bag by the artist is punctuated with hybrid embroidery adorned with handcrafted bees in different sizes, patinas, colors and forms reflecting exceptional Dior savoir-faire. The idea, explains the artist, “is that it’s not finished, it’s open. You could even say, ‘why are there bees missing?’ Because you are a bee. He is a bee, she is a bee. We are all elements that have to interconnect to form something that may function. But it’s always a work that is unfinished.” In an unexpected twist, the bags’ interiors are in gold, contrasting with the clay-inspired surfaces. Concludes Creten of his Dior Lady Art journey: “For me, art is always a way of expressing a vision of how artists, and how we all, have to think about making a better world. And why not do it through the symbol of a bag?” Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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1 Saudi Arabian Artist Manal AlDowayan on Creating a “Love Letter” to Her Home with the Lady Dior Bag 22:02
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Bold and committed, our latest guest on the podcast, contemporary artist Manal AlDowayan, questions the representation of women, social injustices and collective memory. She describes her Lady Dior handbags - created during lockdown from her base in London - as a “love letter” to her homeland of Saudi Arabia with the artist revisiting family photographs and symbolic emblems of her childhood and life story. Born in Dhahran, a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, the artist grew up in a compound that was built as a replica of Southern California “to make the oil drillers feel at home.” She describes it as having this “is it real or is it constructed” feel which feeds into her work. Adorned with a black-and-white photograph swaying with palm trees, Landscapes of the Mind, crafted from printed gold calfskin leather with embroidered black feathers, captures a snapshot of life in Saudi Arabia from a woman’s perspective, while The Boys, in printed black calfskin leather, bears an image taken by her father in 1962 and reworked by the artist. Lastly, a mini minaudiere style bag, made using a 3D printing technique, pays tribute to the desert rose, a symbol of the artist’s childhood growing up on the edge of the desert. Tune in to the episode to hear all about AlDowayan’s experience translating her images onto “a portable space” charged with its own story and emotions: the emblematic Lady Dior handbag. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. In this opening episode we’ll be hearing from Zhang Huan, one of the most prolific and provocative contemporary Chinese artists working today, whose areas of research include the mind/body connection and the cycles of life and death. For this extraordinary project, the artist, whose past materials have included blood, ice and ashes, worked remotely with the Dior Atelier to transpose two of his works onto five versions of this House icon. Reflecting on the technical challenges of recreating art in a bag, one of his concepts based on a Lady Dior filled with incense ashes from hundreds of ancient temples in China sadly did not make the cut. Instead, for his large Lady Dior bag, the artist adapted the work Memory Doors from his My Winter Palace series which was presented at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2020. The bag’s decorative features range from woodwork ornamentation to holographic calfskin leather handles. Fully embroidered with multicolor beads, sequins and glass stones, two mini Lady Dior bags by the artist depict a Sakura field swaying with grinning Buddhist masks, linking the worlds of the living and the dead. A micro holographic Lady Dior with rainbow finish hardware and a medium Lady Dior bag complete the series. From his studio in Shanghai, Zhang talks to us about the inspirations and processes behind his Lady Dior. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the sixth edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, 12 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. “The Lady Dior bag symbolizes longevity, strength, and survival,” says our latest guest in the podcast series, Irish artist Genieve Figgis, who has transposed her universe onto three ethical creations made of grape leather that symbolizes the equality of humans and animals. In her studio in the wilds of County Wicklow south of the Irish capital, the artist draws inspiration from the works of James Ensor, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, revisiting the original paintings as if they were melting or dissolving. A majestic and powerful symbol of life force, the tiger adorns a fully-embroidered Bordeaux colored version of the bag. A quirky cat embroidered with multicolored glass beads and threads features on a second piece, its charm in a pale gold-finish metal depicting a bird on a nest, “waiting for springtime.” Finally, a captivating tableau adorns the third Lady Dior, based on fauna and characters from the past whose features appear to be disintegrating, imparting a disturbing strangeness. These timeless scenes with their faux naivety question our relationship with survival, life and nature. Tune in to the episode to learn more about Figgis’ Dior Lady Art experience as well as the Lady Diana connection between the artist and the iconic Lady Dior bag. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the 5th edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, ten artists and collectives from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Today’s guest, the Chinese artist Song Dong, is known for works that reflect on memories that are intrinsic to everyday objects, and the emotions we project on them. One example is windows, the main theme of his Lady Dior bags, a reference to a monumental structure made from old, discarded windows collected in the streets of Beijing that also reveals “reclaimed value.” The large version of the Window Bag features a colorful grid of miniature windows that act as both a window into the soul and onto the world, with shiny mirrors creating a kaleidoscopic effect. The artist’s idea is that its owner may see herself and the world reflected in it, a means of self-discovery and of reinforcing the bag’s function as a portable piece of art. In addition to the world it holds within, the bag offers an interaction with the outside world, changing according to the light, shadows, places and faces. Listen to this episode to find out more about the fascinating universe of an artist for whom “art is life, and life is art.” Discover Song Dong’s creations : https://youtu.be/i-2FEcVwarc Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the 5th edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, ten artists and collectives from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Trans-culturalism, identity and spirituality are key sources of inspiration for our latest guest on the series, Olga Titus. For her reinterpretation of the iconic bag, the Swiss-Malaysian artist gathered elements that trigger emotion and explored the concept of cultural “in-betweenness.” This “third space” is one she knows well, and it serves as a conduit for cultural exchange inspired by the Indian theorist Homi K. Bhabha. “In my artistic work I encircle a cosmos, a galaxy in which self and external perception, biographical elements and cultural identity are reflected and represented in all their facets,” says the artist, whose creative process can be likened to building a cabinet of curiosities. One case in point: a floral rug in her atelier became the basis for one of her Lady Dior bags, and also references Monsieur Dior’s love of gardens. An assortment of mini masks creates an emotional “community” around the bag. Tune in to this episode to learn more about how Titus approached the Lady Dior , using her signature sequin works as a starting point, and how she incorporated harlequin effects and a kaleidoscope of glass beads to create craft-intensive masterpieces that showcase embroidery at its most extreme. Discover Olga Titus’ creations : https://youtu.be/A5-knt4E1vY Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the 5th edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, ten artists and collectives from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Reinventing tradition and questioning modernity is a creative signature for our latest guest, the multidisciplinary Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret whose sources of inspiration range from modernist art to literature, historical costume, the occult, and notions of community and utopia as seen through a feminist prism. The Geneva-based artist studied English literature at the University of Cambridge and worked for several artists including the late New York-based painter Steven Parrino before attending the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She credits her experience working as a curator and art critic with influencing her process and her interest in narrative. For her reinterpretations of the Lady Dior , Perret textured the body of the bag with shaggy long-pile tapestry and precious glass bead embroidery in geometric motifs inspired by the German thinker Friedrich Fröbel, whose pictograms were used in kindergarten classrooms in the 19th century, reflecting her fascination with graphic alphabets and languages while nodding to the fashion lexicon and the symbolism of the logo. Made using Venetian jewelry-making techniques, her small enamel versions of the Dior charms resemble “little bones.” Tune in to hear all about Perret’s exploration of the “chameleon-like” Lady Dior , and the playful, unexpected side she discovered in the classic “ladylike” icon. Discover Mai Thu Perret’s creations : https://youtu.be/wo-_ZS24dJk Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the 5th edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. Ten artists and collectives from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. In our latest episode, LA-based French painter Claire Tabouret discusses exploring a new territory of creation within the constraints of the bag’s frame through her captivating hallmark fusion of classical, romantic and hypermodern references. On the artist’s creations, a Degas-like dance scene is offset with faux fur and a glow-in-the-dark handle and charms, while her playful self-portrait as a vampire with a blood-stained mouth has dark undertones, with the mysterious, floatingquality of her paintings and expressive brushstrokes transposed onto the bags. “The image of a vampire is your way of thinking about the creation process, being a sponge, absorbing everything around you. It has a slightly dangerous aspect,” says the artist. Recalling Fauvist painters like Henri Matisse and André Derain, Tabouret’s signature clashing of natural and synthetic shades comesthrough in the contrast of Impressionist tones with touches of acid green and citrine yellow. Tune into this fascinating episode to learn more about the parallels between Tabouret’s Dior Lady Art journey and her own approach to painting, as well as her growing appetite for creating wearable art. Discover Claire Tabouret’s creations : https://youtu.be/j1uHnrhf-wU Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the 5th edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, ten artists and collectives from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Today’s guest, Delhi-based feminist artist Bharti Kher, discusses the symbolism of the bindi, an emblem of the third eye and the common thread in her creative universe, and explains how she used this traditional Indian sign and its inherent codes, language and poetry to transform the iconic Lady Dior bag. “When I work with the bindis, I take something that is a representation and a sign, and then I just run with it,” says the artist who, for this collaboration, created two bags with different “energies” — one featuring an explosion of fiery red bindis, which “is about a night out with my girlfriends,” and a quieter, more sophisticated version. Explosions of snake bindis — incarnations of life force, transformation and healing — create hypnotic wave movements over the handbag. Tune in to hear all about the journey behind Bharti Kher’s fun, colorful and irreverent spin on a House icon. Discover Bharti Kher’s creations : https://youtu.be/VjP2lG6Jb0M Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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1 [Lady Art] Recycle Group’s Georgy Kuznetsov and Andrey Blokhin Talk Hacking Reality for Dior Lady Art 31:07
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the 5th edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, ten artists and collectives from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. “Hacking reality” is the motto of Recycle Group’s Georgy Kuznetsov and Andrey Blokhin, who in this episode discuss transposing the Lady Dior into the digital era. The Russian artistic duo is known for deconstructing pillars of artistic culture, like a statue from antiquity or in this case the Lady Dior bag, and bringing them back to life in the virtual world, juxtaposing classical and contemporary iconography. Longtime collaborators of Dior, the fusional creatives have been friends since they were kids, hanging out in their parents’ art studios in early post-Soviet artist residencies. In their new interpretation of the House icon, the bag’s classical quilted cannage motif is distorted into a hypnotic trompe-l’œil vortex and waves recalling glitches or a Snapchat filter, and the letter charms are morphed and twisted. The eyelets are also altered, and the charms appear to be entirely swallowed by the whirlwind forms, seemingly projecting the bag into the digital realm. “We liked the idea of combining two realities,” explains Blokhin of a fascinating creative vision positioned on reality’s final frontiers. Discover Chris Soal’s creations : https://youtu.be/K5shObQUjoA Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
Welcome to the Dior Talks series themed around the 5th edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year’s event, ten artists and collectives from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art. Sharing the mic in our latest episode is the artist Chris Soal, an emerging talent who was born in 1994, the year the Lady Dior was created. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, he is known for amorphous wall sculptures made from recycled single-use items, with influences ranging from the Arte Povera movement to African totems and the treasures of nature. With a Midas-like touch, the artist transforms mundane objects into rich, sensual works that challenge conventional notions of value, a concept he transposed onto textured Lady Dior bags covered in bottle tops bent like cowrie shells or furry swaths of toothpicks evoking couture embroidery. One might compare the painstaking handicraft of his work to the elaborate construction of the Lady Dior bag itself, which is assembled from 144 pieces. The story behind its signature cannage motif — borrowed from the Napoleon III seats Monsieur Dior used to seat guests at his haute couture presentations at 30 Avenue Montaigne — echoes his processes of observation and application. Tune in to hear Soal discuss the experience of fusing the haute and the humble in his reinvention of the Lady Dior bag as well as its charms, including turning the letter “O” into a bottle opener. Discover Chris Soal’s creations : https://youtu.be/mWHNIigfA54 Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.…
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