Dior Enchanting Gardens
Preface by Jean-Paul Claverie, Introduction by Brigitte Richart, Contributions by Philippe Deliau and Amy de La Haye and Vincent Leret and Barbara Jeauffroy-Mairet and Coline Zellal
- Publish Date: September 02, 2025
- Format: Hardcover
- Category: Photography - Subjects & Themes - Fashion
- Publisher: Rizzoli
- Trim Size: 8-1/10 x 10-2/5
- Pages: 160
- US Price: $45.00
- CDN Price: $60.00
- ISBN: 978-0-8478-7418-7
Reviews
"A confection of fashion, flowers, and fragrance, Dior: Enchanting Gardens examines the couturier’s love of flowers in every form. With its roots in the gardens of his childhood home in Granville, on the Norman seaside, this passion revealed itself in exquisitely embroidered flowers on couture dresses, floral perfumes, and Dior’s homes, and has been reinterpreted by subsequent designers for the label, from Gianfranco Ferré to John Galliano to Maria Grazia Chiuri." — Frederic
"A new tome, Dior Enchanting Gardens (Rizzoli), explores how flowers and gardens have been an essential element and influence for all of the creatives at the helm of the house (including Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré and John Galliano) in both couture and perfumes. Chapters present the gardens of Dior’s private residences—from his childhood home, Les Rhumbs in Granville, to his Château de La Colle Noire in Montauroux via the Moulin-du-Coudret in Milly-la-Forêt; revisit the historical fragrances of the house (think Miss Dior); and showcase a collection of portraits of dresses that reveal the floral inspiration in the collections from Dior’s era to today. A special focus is placed on the most emblematic designs by all of the creative directors of the house, from the early f lowery vision of femininity to contemporary floral-inspired designs." — DuJour
"In February 1947 the couturier Christian Dior harked back to the rosy autochrome with his first collection, “Corolle,” named for the petaled cup of a flower and later christened the New Look. “Dior: Enchanting Gardens” (Rizzoli, 160 pages, $45) digs into the role nature played in Dior’s collections during the 10 years, from 1947 to 1957, when he was the most influential designer in the West. Like the three-petaled trillium, the book has three sections. The first describes the garden Dior’s mother created on the family estate in Granville, France—a Belle Époque paradise he loved as a boy—and his own gardens in the countryside, at Milly-la-Forêt and La Colle Noir. The second focuses on Dior’s perfumes and the third on the floral presence in his fashions. All three sections brim with short essays on various plant species such as rose, clover, iris, violet, daisy and lily of the valley, which Dior fashioned into silhouettes and blossoming decorative surfaces. His elegant “H”-line of 1954, for instance, was a nod to the humble haricot vert, or green bean. The book’s text was written by French specialists in fashion, fragrance and landscape, and is abundantly and inventively illustrated. Dior planted a lot of sartorial seeds in his decade of design, and readers are shown how the couturiers who’ve headed the house since then have updated the garden with cultivars and hybrids, modernizing the master’s original shapes. A captivating study of the brand’s botanical roots, “Enchanting Gardens” is the most delightful of Dior books." — The Wall Street Journal.
Author Bookshelf: Brigitte Richart
Author Bookshelf: Vincent Leret
