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See pics: Rihanna to Princess Diana, iconic women in iconic Dior

Updated on: May 5, 2016, 20:02:38 IST
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An exhibition pays homage to the stylish women who have famously worn garments designed by the French fashion house through a line-up of dresses, photographs, paintings, letters and drawings. (Christian Dior Museum)
An exhibition pays homage to the stylish women who have famously worn garments designed by the French fashion house through a line-up of dresses, photographs, paintings, letters and drawings. (Christian Dior Museum)

An exhibition pays homage to the stylish women who have famously worn garments designed by the French fashion house through a line-up of dresses, photographs, paintings, letters and drawings.

France’s Christian Dior Museum, housed in the fashion designer’s childhood home in Granville, Normandy, is holding a summer exhibition entitled Women in Dior - Sublime Elegance of a Portrait, May 5 to September 25, 2016.

The exhibition pays homage to the stylish women who have famously worn garments designed by the French fashion house through a line-up of dresses, photographs, paintings, letters and drawings.

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Here’s a look at some of the exhibition’s key pictures and pieces. (All photos: Christian Dior Museum)

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Geneviève Page wearing a Christian Dior gown at the French Film Festival, London, England, 1957.

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Princess Diana arriving in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 23, 1995, carrying the Dior bag that she made famous, and which went on to become the Lady Dior.

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Portrait of Mitzah Bricard, circa 1950.

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Princess Margaret, accompanied by Sir Oliver Harvey, arriving at the Cercle Interallié ball, held in aid of the Hertford British Hospital, Paris, France, November 21, 1951.

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Rihanna wore a piece from Dior’s autumn/winter 2015 haute couture collection to attend the label’s spring/summer 2016 ready-to-wear catwalk show in Paris, France, October 2, 2015.

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Exhibition poster: Marilyn Monroe wears a Dior design during The Last Sitting photographed by Bert Stern for Vogue at the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles, June 1962.