Blockbuster House of Dior Exhibit Opens In Melbourne, Australia August 25, 2017

The House of Dior turned to Australia for the first presentation of a complete collection outside of Paris. The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia will commemorate the 1948 showing in Sydney, Australia as part of its 2017 exhibition 'The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture.'

The upcoming exhibition, which is has been organized collaboratively by the museum and Christian Dior Couture, is a celebration of the House of Dior’s 70th anniversary. It will feature over 140 designs created between 1947 and today, highlighting the work of its head designers Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri (the company’s first female creative director, hired in July), not to mention Christian Dior himself, who died suddenly in 1957.

The exhibition will open on August 25, 2017 and run until November 7, 2017.