A new exhibition, open now at La Galerie Dior in Paris’ fashionable eighth arrondissement, explores Christian Dior and his work, but through an entirely new lens: that of Azzedine Alaïa’s. For decades, Alaïa quietly collected clothing he admired, snapping up couture from both the biggest names and rising artists of the day. By the time of his death, in 2017, the designer had acquired nearly 20,000 pieces—600 of which were by Monsieur Dior himself. With the opening of Alaïa’s Dior Collection and another upcoming show, Azzedine Alaïa and Christian Dior, Two Masters of Couture (which will debut at the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation next month) the two men are put into conversation in more ways than one. The former show demonstrates just how much Alaïa was an admirer and a guardian of Dior’s wo

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