The Lady Noire Affair by Christian Dior
The latest in a long line of cross-pollinatory projects between the worlds of film and fashion, the creative minds at Christian Dior will this month release a short film (shown above) by renowned director, Olivier Dahan.
Starring the reticent Gallic beauty, Marrion Cotillard (of La Vie en Rose fame), the film is a self-celebratory tribute to Dior's sublime Parisian style and the product at the centre of the project - The Lady Dior bag.
Supremely French, the six-minute short - The Lady Noire Affair – tells the story of a well-dressed heroine who sets out to save a dashing young man who (in a contemporaneous twist) is being held captive by an evil banker.
Set to be the first in a series of four similar celluloid projects, the Lady Noire Affiair - produced by Christian Dior and conceived by John Galliano - is a decadent noir-esque nod to the beautiful people, objects and (most importantly) clothes that line the gilded streets of Paris.
Taking its cue from filmic forays by Chanel (featuring the expensive talents of both Nicole Kidman and Audrey Tatou) and Gwyneth Paltrow's bag-chasing outing at Tod's - Dior's Hitchcockian stab at the silver screen should lend a little cinematic magic to Dior's already shimmering brand.
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Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.
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