“We should all be feminists”. After chanting it on the catwalks in 2017, Dior is once again showing its support for the feminist cause with this very first thematic exhibition. The Galerie Dior here applies to the letter this mantra dictated by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by rolling out the red carpet to female artists associated directly or indirectly with the Parisian label. The opportunity to meet one of Niki de Saint Phalle's busty Nanas, to marvel at the delicate decorations of Eva Jospin divinely enveloping this millefiori dress in silk gauze worn by Natalie Portman, to soothe the surrealist fever of Léonor Fini of whom Christian Dior was himself a
collector before passing under the golden banners of Judy Chicago. Elina Chauvet's poignant work dealing with femicide sadly brings us bitterly back to a sad reality where women's lives are always in danger...