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Know-how: the secrets of making the legendary Lady Dior bag

A must-see for the Avenue Montaigne, the Lady Dior bag is unveiled today in a new light. We will take you to the Dior workshops to discover the secrets of making this exceptional piece, originally created especially for Princess Diana. Unique know-how giving birth to what could be called a work of art.
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Created in 1995 at the instigation of the former first lady of France Bernadette Chirac, who wanted to offer Lady Di a unique handbag during her visit to Paris, the legendary Lady Dior bag has since become a must-see of the French house. And for good reason, it is the reflection of its unique know-how.

If the hand of the craftsman at the origin of his making is indispensable, it is the selection of the skins that will give the "the." Then always follows the same ritual: to touch, to feel, to examine, to observe, to scrutinize. Second step: the dive and its ultra-precise gesture to achieve the graphic pattern of caning. Finally, when the Lady Dior is assembled around a wooden form designed to measure, its very precise proportions, it is systematic a human hand that ensures its perfect architecture and adjusts the skin, the one that makes " the unique character of an object of art (...), the hand of the man whose value is irreplaceable, as wrote Christian Dior , because it gives to all that it creates what no machine could bring: the poetry and life. "

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