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.