Artnet: "See the 93-Year-Old Textile Artist Isabella Ducrot’s Monumental Scenography for Dior Couture"

Lee Carter, January 23, 2024

The Italian artist created 23 large textile works in collaboration with Dior designer Maria Grazia Chiuri.

 

Upon entering the Musée Rodin in Paris, guests of Dior’s spring 2024 haute couture show—who included the glittery likes of The Crown’s Elizabeth Debicki, Rihanna, Natalie Portman, Indian actress Sonam Kapoor, and South African opera singer Pretty Yende—found themselves swathed in the theme of the show: the sensual tactility of fabric.

 

Blanketing the walls of the space were 23 monumental works by the nonagenarian Italian textile artist Isabella Ducrot. Indeed, these enormous depictions of garments—each measuring five meters in height—were woven on ancestral looms by the artisans of the Chanakya ateliers and School of Craft in Mumbai, India.

 

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