oma completes miss dior: tales of a miss exhibition
With sinuous partitions of pink ribbon, big rotating fragrance bottles and olfactory niches, Miss Dior: Tales of a Miss celebrates 78 years of historical past behind the long-lasting perfume. Made by Dutch architects personalthe experiential exhibition keep inside from Tokyo Roppongi Museum, weaving a multi-layered story of Miss Dior's cultural impression throughout seven rooms.
Showcasing archival artifacts to modern merchandise, from couture to ready-to-wear, the house is formed by a large number of intertwining tales. The design workforce additionally curated a number of ephemera, reference art work, traditional illustrations and fashionable model campaigns that collectively created the perfume's lasting id.
Miss Dior: Tales of a Miss | all photos courtesy of OMA
from archival artifacts to reimagined iterations
“Designing an area to expertise one thing as intangible as a odor was an attention-grabbing problem,” feedback Shohei Shigematsu, Principal Architect at OMA. Encapsulating the perfume's numerous content material, auras and narratives, every setting in Miss Dior: Tales of a Miss reveals new insights into timeless iconographies whereas conveying the vitality of the model. The journey begins with a whimsically massive, rotating copy of the newest Miss Dior fragrance bottle. Alongside it, Dior artefacts and reproductions are mounted on gallery partitions or framed in customized containers that observe their contours, projecting their distinct kinds past their bodily dimension.
Primarily based on classical Roman structure, Miss Dior by Eva Jospin is a domed house constructed from intricately embroidered tapestries by the French artist. A single showcase sits within the middle, highlighting the particular version perfume, additionally designed by Jospin. Subsequent, Fields of Flowers introduces guests to the 5 floral scents of the newest Miss Dior perfume and their particular person floral-note substances. Niches carved into the partitions every carry an atomizer within the form of human-scale flower buds, which create an immersive olfactory panorama. Contained in the room, a single flower is drawn out and magnified with material in wavy material layered in a curving form harking back to petaled floral shapes.
the exhibition celebrates the 78 years of historical past behind the long-lasting fragrance
exaggerated scales, vibrant hues and chic finishes
In Tales of a Miss, Miss Dior's signature backside unfolds throughout the room, recalling the amphora form of the unique bottle. Sculpting by way of circumstances and double-sided showcases, it creates a steady path, retelling the historical past of the model with new narrative frames. In a rounded, dome-shaped room with a central topography of plinths, Miss Dior: The Delivery of Prepared-to-Put on homes the namesake assortment launched in 1967, the primary ready-to-wear line of the Home of Dior. Its unique illustrated emblem is reproduced at varied scales in a pixelated geometric form in saturated hues.
Dior Illustrated recreates the works of René Gruau and Mats Gustafson, the primary and present Home of Dior artists respectively, in life-size prints. Providing a more in-depth view of the work and particulars, they line the partitions of a winding pink path reimagining the fiberglass draperies of each Studio Gruau and Christian Dior. Finally, The Miss Dior Dream is a visit by way of an undulating panorama of key couture clothes paired with specifically designed art work and fragrance bottles. Every garment is displayed on a tall mound of washi paper, which permits eye-level viewing of distinctive items. Steel partitions and flooring infuse a up to date contact and create delicate reflections, whereas a washi paper cloud ceiling evokes an immersive, dreamlike setting that bridges artwork and nature.
content material ranges from archival artifacts to modern and couture to ready-to-wear
prints by René Gruau and Mats Gustafson line the partitions of a sinuous pink path
reimagining the draperies of each Studio Gruau and Christian Dior in fiberglass