In 90 fast-moving minutes, Tcheng goes behind the scenes to show the tensions and grind of the manual work that goes into a haute couture collection. It contains the legacy of the vision of the great couturier Christian Dior (who died suddenly in 1957) who, in just ten years, revolutionised the way women dressed, generating an empire that has survived him by more than 50 years. There is the dressmaking excellence and the “petites mains” that model fabrics and lend shape to ideas with pins, needle and thread. There are, of course, the intuitions, ideas and style of a new creative director who embarked on his adventure by reviving the style codes of the first five years of the Dior archives but who seems almost to step back when he finds himself all too close to the personality of the house’s founder, like him a huge lover contemporary art.
Dior and I
Regia: Frédéric Tcheng
Durata: 90 minuti
Francia, 2014