Five things to see at the Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams exhibition, opening at the V&A this weekend

The Christian Dior Couture dress that Princess Margaret wore for her 21st birthday portraits will take centre stage at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s blockbuster Dior exhibition, opening on Saturday 2nd February. It was back in October that curator Oriole Cullen first revealed plans for Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, an eleven-room exploration of the history of the house in the museum’s Sainsbury Gallery – the biggest ever held in the UK, and the biggest fashion exhibition to be undertaken by the museum since Alexander McQueen: Savage Fashion in 2015. Cullen and her team have inherited hundreds of items from Christian Dior: Couturier du Rêve (an exhibition held at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs) but have reconfigured the contents for British audiences and added a new exhibit dedicated to exploring Dior’s infatuation with Britain – from our aristocrats and stately homes (Dior showed collections at Blenheim Palace in 1954) to country life and food. Read Lisa Armstrong’s in-depth interview with Cullen, discussing the relationship between the designer and the Princess, here, and start your exhibition checklist with our must-see highlights below… See Princess Margaret’s 21st birthday ball gown Central in the room that will explore Dior as an anglophile will be the off-the-shoulder… Read full this story

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