Every day I find some kind of occult related creator content dropped into my YouTube suggestions, so it wasn't exactly a surprise to see a tarot history video in there. What was a surprise was the fact that it was on the famed French fashion house Christian Dior's channel ... um, excuse me, what?
Yes, the video is a brief history lesson on the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck . The designer Maria Grazia Chiuri created an entire collection based on the tarot, for Dior's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2021; after finding herself doing some soul searching after 2020 forced us all to become recluses.
I guess this is not the first time that this designer has found inspiration in the cards for Dior ... the Spring/Summer 2017 Ready to Wear collection had "Tarot Dresses" ... along with cute bags to match. Also, apparently, Monsieur Dior himself was really into having his cards read before each of his collection's runway shows. Ok, so there's a long standing connection. Got it.
Dior hired a film crew to create something that's a lot like a Jodorowsky epic, but instead of surrealistic montages blowing out the back of your skull for 3 plus hours, this one is only 15 minutes, and is downright spritely in its tone. The rest of the channel's videos about the collection are interesting in their own right ... from short making-of's about the mini-film to vignettes on some of the individual looks ... you can find the whole kit and caboodle in a playlist HERE.