Dior Heads to Dallas with Its Traveling Exhibition

The Met’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion” isn’t the only exhibition presenting exuberant fashion. Dior, the famed French fashion label, is bringing its roving spectacle, “Dior: From Paris to the World,” to the Dallas Museum of Art (May 19-Sept. 1).

Debuting at the Denver Art Museum last fall to great acclaim, the show presents collections from all of Christian Dior’s creative heads: the eponymous designer, Yves Saint Laurant, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri. It serves as an extension of the 70th-anniversary showcase, “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams,” that premiered in Paris in 2017, and is currently housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. And like its predecessor, “Dior: From Paris to the World” examines the maison’s influence on the fashion industry—but goes a step further, juxtaposing a coterie of designs with works from the museum and local private collectors.

From a large-scale baroque painting behind pastel ball gowns, to a splatter painting by Jackson Pollock adjacent to a sack dress cast in the same motif, to a Sterling Ruby work overlooking a selection of pieces inspired by the artist, curators Florence Muller and Sarah Schleuning makes it a point to highlight the brand’s close relationship with the fine art world. The duo also created galleries filled with sketches, photographs, and accessories.

It’s a monumental exhibition that relays Dior’s trajectory through the years—and proof that everything’s bigger in Texas.