Dior celebrates the late Peter Lindbergh with 2-volume book, Dior/Lindbergh
Dozens of long-term collaborations between designers and photographers going back decades have created indelible images. Bruce Weber and Calvin Klein, Jürgen Teller and Marc Jacobs, and Helmut Newton and Saint Laurent are just a handful. Perhaps one of the greatest partnerships of all time was the one between German photographer Peter Lindbergh and French fashion house Christian Dior.
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Dior celebrates its greatest photographer in a two-volume book tracing Lindbergh’s legacy, capturing the house’s icon-filled history.
Lindbergh, who died in September, and the fashion house created some of the world’s most luminous advertising campaigns of the past decade, such as for Lady Dior and J’Adore, featuring muses like Charlize Theron and Marion Cotillard. Their final collaboration is the two-volume Dior/Lindbergh (published by Taschen).
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One volume details 70 years of Dior’s history using the house’s archives in an October 2018 New York shoot, featuring Alek Wek, Karen Elson, Saskia de Brauw, Carolyn Murphy, Amber Valletta and Sasha Pivovarova, highlighting the brand’s most iconic silhouettes.
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The second is a retrospective of Lindbergh’s legacy with the house, captured in a series of images from, among others, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Vanity Fair, showcasing the architecture and material of Dior’s haute couture against one of street photography’s most striking backdrops.
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German photographer and French fashion house created some of the most luminous advertising campaigns of the past decade, such as for Lady Dior and J’Adore