Dior Lady Art

An encounter between fashion and creation in all its forms since 2016, the Dior Lady Art project grants international artists carte blanche to revisit the essential Lady Dior, which then transforms into a dream canvas for transposing their vision and originality. Excellence mingles with contemplation, turning that accessory into an object of desire, stories and art. At once a symbol and a legend, the Lady Dior embodies the quintessence of Dior style, the fruit of timeless elegance and perpetually renewed audacity.

For this ninth chapter, 11 artists have woven stories – as personal as they are collective – around this enchanting emblem. A translation of their unique perspective, an extension of their aesthetics and a reflection of their values, each reinterpretation embodies a feat of extraordinary prowess. The Dior ateliers once again have pushed back the limits of what is possible by deploying marvellously multi-faceted skills and unrivalled meticulousness. An art of detail that combines Dior heritage and creative freedom, resonating like a tribute to world cultures.

Sara Flores
Through her work, Sara Flores brings to life Kené, the age-old visual language at the heart of the Shipibo-Conibo People’s artistic practices and cosmovision. For this new chapter of Dior Lady Art, the artist wished to highlight her community’s skills with two striking bags whose details echo her personal painted works based on plant pigments.

Jeffrey Gibson
Blending heritage and audacity, ultra-colourful works by Jeffrey Gibson draw on traditional Native American craftsmanship and a bold, almost psychedelic aesthetic that incorporates painting, sculpture, engraving, textiles and video. Here, he transposes his style onto a resolutely Pop-inspired Lady Dior that nods to his signature punching bags – for practicing boxing – and are now revisited as art objects.

Woo Kukwon
Woo Kukwon’s joyfully hued creations reflect the ambiguous coexistence of reality and fiction. His five transformations of the eternal Lady Dior reflect that perspective, depicting his family in enchanted spaces as well as a powerfully poignant world view; for example, one variation features a meticulously embroidered polar bear and the phrase “Killing me softly”.

Danielle Mckinney
In her intimate cinematic portraits, Danielle Mckinney captures all the subtleties of the private sphere. A captivating poetry of the everyday unfolds in a couture lexicon on a dazzling Lady Dior. At its centre, the silhouette of a woman is delicately hand-embroidered, thread by thread, invoking the absolute mastery and magical colours of her pictorial renditions.

Duy Anh Nhan Duc
Visual artist Duy Anh Nhan Duc uses common plants to create installations that conjure and nurture a dreamlike dialogue with the cycles of life. His Lady Dior is embellished with a floral motif embossed on entirely vegan leather enhanced by a magnified trellis, twigs and branches in gold-finish metal, precious embroidery and wildflowers – a contrast he cherishes and celebrates magnificently. A golden vine enlaces the handle of this exceptional object, which holds a dandelion, the artist’s signature, preserved in a drop of resin.

Hayal Pozanti
Hayal Pozanti uses lush, organic forms to create fantastical universes where harmonic life takes shape. For Dior Lady Art, she designed three bags etched with her vision of nature as a sensorial and interpretive subject. Like fabulous journeys into the heart of the mountains, two Lady Dior bags are finished with athletic details drawn from trekking, one of the artist’s favourite pastimes.

Faith Ringgold
Poised at the intersection of time-honoured tradition and fine art, Faith Ringgold’s work relies particularly on the innovative use of textile quilting. Through it, she confronts issues of race, gender and social justice in compositions made of shimmering hues studded with textual and textile elements. Before her recent passing in April 2024, the legendary artist imagined six unique creations for Dior Lady Art, evoking some of her most emblematic works – each one a fascinating, exceptional dialogue.

Vaughn Spann
Vaughn Spann’s dynamic, deeply personal combinations are punctuated by strong iconographic symbols evoking emotion and reflection. His reinterpretations of the Lady Dior perpetuate that approach, playing on the duality of masculine and feminine or revisiting the artist’s iconic works through playful, Pop-inflected effects of material, relief and contrast.

Anna Weyant
Anna Weyant’s figurative, tragicomic paintings question social convention and the codes of femininity, in both nostalgic portraiture and still life. Here, she transcribes that vision in virtuoso reinventions of the Lady Dior, decorating them with an irresistibly couture pattern that evokes wood grain and flowers shaped like jewelled sculptures.

Liang Yuanwei
Liang Yuanwei explores the spheres of the perceptual and spiritual in everyday life and the passage of time. Richly referencing several sources in Eastern and Western cultures, her oeuvres have been transformed in both the repetitive system of the construction of space and in the gesture. Here, she has found inspiration in her impasto Golden Notes series and Ru ware from the Song dynasty, integrating two-dimensional painting in the three-dimensional Lady Dior. Made in resin using 3D printing, calligraphic brushstrokes by the artist are reproduced as puzzle tabs and brought together as a whole on the bag.

Huang Yuxing
Marked by entrancing contrasts and a palette of flamboyant shades – evoking the Chinese Gongbi technique – Huang Yuxing’s canvases offer a glimpse of the passage of his brush and hand. An astonishing universe, spanning dream and reality, that appears on four Lady Diors – for example, two medium models bearing the psychedelic motifs of Heaven and the Earth (2016-2020).