Since the founding of his couture house in 1947, Christian Dior has made the hat an essential reference in Dior style, French Haute Couture and international fashion. L'Atelier Mode Dior, entirely dedicated to the creation of hats, has remained active throughout the seven decades of the house’s history. Since 1996, the great British milliner Stephen Jones has been perpetuating and nurturing this tradition with the successive artistic directors of the House of Dior until Maria Grazia Chiuri today.
In 2022, the Christian Dior Museum dedicated all of its exhibition rooms to the creative strength and know-how of the Dior hat. This exhibition is a first: an exceptional set of nearly two hundred hats will interact with thirty Dior Haute Couture dresses in «total look» as well as about fifty fashion photographs and beauty and makeup ads celebrating the art of hat.