christiane dior's iconic fashion in london. but we begin with a production that's new to the hamburg opera it's the baroque opera and your idiocy directed by the legendary choreographer. who has been bad a director there for over forty five years so is it an opera or is it a ballet well actually it's a bit of both a choreographed opera if you like bending the genre a little which noir is sort of bracing for. with his tragic opera ofis and you really see christoph look at one time revolutionize the world of music director and choreographer john knew maya continues this revolution with his production in. the version is done as a synergy of music and dance a good sound constant synthesis of the arts. there's zero padding it was when she could get music that was the original idea behind this opera in and i think the singers if they're good at musical and the dance if they're good are also musical and if you put them together you might see two contrasts in types of musicality but i think that's what block wanted. from gluck so good

now christian dior is the name of one of the world's top fashion houses the man himself started the brand just off the wall and almost immediately revolutionized fashion with his new look he paid no attention to the gloom and austerity of post-war europe and desired fabulous clothes that went in the loft now there's currently a retrospective of his work in. london's victoria and albert museum has a good eye for fashion it's curatorial staff acquired one of dior's iconic bastards back in one nine hundred sixty. now the museum has mounted a retrospective devoted to making terry french designer and talented businessman christian dior. a legacy of christian dior really he really crystallises a moment in twentieth century fashion and within you know and in his name is still known globally and although he was a shy and retiring and he really knew how to push the bra and. deal founded his fashion house in paris in one thousand nine hundred forty six and his very first collection was a success stars like marlena dietrich were among his first clients born in normandy as the son of an industrialist

legacy of christian dior really he really crystallises a moment in twentieth century fashion and within you know i mean his name is still known globally and although he was a shy and retiring and he really knew how to push the brand. do you all founded his fashion house in paris in one thousand nine hundred forty six and his very first collection was a success stars like molyneux dietrich were among his first clients born in normandy as the son of an industrialist dual was not only an excellent scripture interests micah he also had a knack for successfully marketing his creations he designed a new collection for each season and featured her jeans from the very start that way all those who couldn't afford his clothes could at least surround themselves with the scent of opulence. to your didn't hold back. confab brick and sparkles after the gray or steel use of the second world war the will to do with thrilled by this return to luxury others criticized him as wasteful. i became a fashion i loved the united kingdom including its food he had his first fashion show in london and nine hundred

in one nine hundred fifty christiane dior staged his first fashion show in london. his revolutionary new look went down well with the ladies but it caused a bit of a headache for the government. rationing was still in place a fabric was in short supply and the government really didn't want people looking for these new longer length skirts which used a lot more fabric they thought it was a waste and it was unpatriotic and that was the line so they called in the fashion journalists the head of the board of trade and told them not to report on this favorably but of course you know there was such a hunger for glamour after the. people just wanted to wear it anyway. british designer stephen jones has been designing hats for the your since one thousand nine hundred six in the current exhibition visitors can marvel at more than one hundred thirty different creations by the top milliner he says british influence on to your is unmistakable back then and now. when you look at your you see evening dresses and ball gowns and there's a quintessentially french. but when you see t

share christiane dior's love of britain. i like land in the. least my daughter. like to spend time here and then any case when i was younger i was fascinated about is. there at and they way that you see the people around you like that. i think there is this fantastic balance between. them break their walls that is a lot. in january the italian born designer showed her latest collection in paris with british acrobats hats by steven jones and a number of british model. now it is within my regrets his creation i think this idea of independence and a bit like rock n roll which she loves to combine with the dream of the lady like dresses to make something new. the new do your exhibition is the biggest ever shown in britain and it's already attracting the. fashion fans will leave some patients queuing up but it's certainly worth it. here and the international film festival. until the seventeenth of february the celebrities were racing direct coppered signing autographs and presenting their new movies after all that hard work even stars have to wind down and have a new

to that point, a new exhibit dedicated to legendary designer christian dior is drawing huge crowds and >> reporter: for more than seven decades, the house of dior has been synonymous with luxury, elegance, and opulence. >> the name of the printed taffeta dress for the new line -- >> reporter: now a blockbuster exhibition in london has brought together hundreds of dior's most iconic works. bejewelled and embroidered by artisans, designs that blur the line between fashion and art. >> everything on display in this exhibit is haute couture which means, of course, it's made by hand at dior. there are these strong codes or themes of design which have really carried through from christian dior's designs in the 70-plus years in the house. >> reporter: the show revealed how dior's influence was from the start downright revolutionary. the story of dior began just after the second world war, an age of penny pinching, until a french designer, christian dior, stunned the fashion world with his collection. >> the new collections -- >> reporter: they called it "the new look." "elle"'s editor-in-chief

why french designer christian dior had a passion for fans british and libraries in europe are becoming less stuffy more exciting. first to denmark in winter and there the sun only comes out every once in a while that's why the danish capital brings a little light into the darkness with a cup in the hague and light dozens of installations a currently in the unnamed in this city my absolute favorite is an artwork consisting of over cans and bicycle parts hard to imagine take a look. lighting up the darkest weeks of the year in winter copenhagen turns into an open air gallery for light. installations by artists from denmark and many other parts of the world to turn the danish capital into a tourist attraction in the cold season to. give them more shows more drama to be. a fantasy in the cup they're like yeah i really like it this time of year it's good to get out out see the lights and see the city and you know anything like this just one of. the danish lined up his mess vegas hopes to beat the winter blues with eternal sundown the installation shines from sundown to sunrise in the port o

fashion revolution simple and yet one thousand nine hundred forty seven so different in one show christian dior swept away boxy austere dresses and designed a bold new curvy look for the worn women of europe. this vast exhibition in london celebrates that moment and the themes that have defined his house of dior ever since in every stitch there is passion from the bull worn by princess margaret had twenty first birthday to this dress embellished with gold celebrities and royalty clamored for his creations but ten years after his first show dior died suddenly making his legacy all the more impressive he had such an impact in those ten years is that the name of christie into your was sort of known throughout the world as a leader a fashion and so. you know the six successive artistic directors at the house of dior sort of maintained the relevance of to your by reinterpreting and reimagining the codes of the house to modern and contemporary audiences. the exhibition weaves together the work of those artistic directors including young frankel ferry and raf sevens. but it is the work of john gallian

decades of the brand's influence on the fashion world since its inception by french design a christian dior in one nine hundred forty six charlie and now reports. this is the outfit that sparked a fashion revolution simple and yet in one nine hundred forty seven so different in one show christian dior swept away boxy austere dresses and designed a bold new curvy look for the worn women of europe. this vast exhibition in london celebrates that moment and the themes that have defined his house of dior ever since in every stitch there is passion from the bull by princess margaret had twenty first birthday to this dress embellished with gold celebrities and royalty clamored for his creations but ten years after his first show do your died suddenly making his legacy all the more impressive he had such an impact in those ten is the name of christie into your was sort of known throughout the world as a leader a fashion and so. you know the six successive artistic directors at the house of. sort of maintaining the relevance of to you. by reinterpreting in reimagining the currys of the house to mode

and we visit an exhibition of christiane dior's iconic fashion in london. but we begin with a production that's new to the hamburg opera it's the baroque opera in your idiocy directed by the legendary choreographer. who has been bad a director over forty five years so is it an opera or is it a ballet well actually it's a bit of both a choreographed opera if you like bending the genre a little which noir is sort of bracing for. with his tragic opera ofis and you really see christoph look at one time revolutionize the world of music director and choreographer john knew my continues this revolution with production in. the version is done as a synergy of music and dance a good sound const synthesis of the arts. it was good to get into.

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the passion house of dior is regarded as the essence of parisian chic and french design a christian dior became famous well wide for his optional and celts pitching no she had a great passion for all things british that's why the victoria and albert museum in london are in do your the lavish exhibition. christiane to your designer of dreams is the name of the latest fashion exhibition in london's victoria and albert museum and in fact the show allows you to get unusually close to the french labels dream claims. the highlight addressed that do your design for the occasion of princess margaret's twenty first birthday and most important times was princess margaret and the year as the youngest sibling of the monarchy or queen elizabeth she was able to wear what she would like to wear and so she chairs when she was eighteen she went to paris and visited some of the you. and the one that she would have from as christa knew. but it wasn't just british royalty who had a thing for do your the french designer was himself fascinated by britain and british style. in perth on the normandy coast and w

a fashion revolution simple and yet in one nine hundred forty seven so different in one show christian dior swept away boxy austere dresses and designed a bold new covey look for the worn women of europe. this vast exhibition in london celebrates that moment and the themes that have defined his house of dior ever since in every stitch there is passion from the bull worn by princess margaret had twenty first birthday to this dress embellished with gold celebrities and royalty clamored for his creations but ten years after his first show dior died suddenly making his legacy all the more impressive he had such an impact in those ten years is that the name of christie into your was sort of known throughout the world as a leader a fashion and so. you know the six successive artistic directors at the house of dior sort of maintaining the relevance of to your by reinterpreting and reimagining the codes of the house to modern and contemporary audiences. the exhibition weaves together the work of those artistic directors including young frankel ferry and raf simmons. but it is the work of john galli

christian dior was producing the new look , why have not we heard about catherine dor? is one of the most what stories of all. catherine dior did not want people talking about her, she was one of the bravest sent to ravens brooke and you can see her here, and her uniform when she emerged from regensburg but in the other picture you see her with her brotherchristian dior and the man she loved . dacia boundary was an aristocratic catholic and he couldn't or wouldn't care for her and catherine preferred to live quietly andprivately, not married after the war to him , literally and conservative friendsliving in sin . they ran a wholesale flower business together and she didn't want her story talk about . i think it's so revealing of why the story but it was only when john gagliano was for dor, and isometric remarks, so finally you're decided it's about time the world knew about catherine viewer, how can he be publicly anti-semitic when catherine and your. [bleep] done the extraordinary things and i'm just thrilled to tell her story and i think it's really sad that her story

a fashion revolution simple and yet in one nine hundred forty seven so different in one show christian dior swept away boxy austere dresses and designed a bold new curvy look for the worn women of europe. this vast exhibition in london celebrates that moment and the themes that have defined his house of dior ever since in every stitch there is passion from the bull worn by princess margaret had twenty first birthday to this dress embellished with gold celebrities and royalty clamored for his creations but ten years after his first show dior died suddenly making his legacy all the more impressive he had such an impact in those ten years is the name of christie into your was sort of known throughout the world as a leader a fashion and so you know the six successive artistic directors of the house of. sort of maintaining the relevance of to your by reinterpreting and reimagining the codes of the house to modern and contemporary audiences. the exhibition weaves together the work of those artistic directors including young frankel ferry and raf sevens. but it is the work of john galliano that re

. >> reporter: jennifer lawrence pairing this christian dior. >> the gown was magnificent.st people remember her for falling up the stairs in this gorgeous gown. >> reporter: the academy awards is the perfect place to fall for the actresses you love. and celebrity stylist micaela erlanger is here. she is dressing lupita nyong'o, no big deal, and constance wu for the oscars. she'll show us how some iconic outfits can inspire everyday looks for you, even years later by the way. you can shop the looks on our website. if you're liking it, you can get into it. let's go ahead and -- micaela, welcome, by the way. >> thank you. >> we begin with gwyneth paltrow. this is one ofr favorites. she looks so stunning. it is so iconic. from '99? >> which i love this dress. it was perfect for her. it suited her complexion. i think she was one of the first people to really wear pink on the red carpet. so this, for me is up with of my all-time favorites. it was ralph lauren. it was this gorgeous taf ta. i love the slip dress. >> a modern look. and the '90s are back. this is cristobel. tell us