


With the iconic house’s petites mains, furniture, tools, and fabrics taken right out of the impenetrable studio and onto Avenue Montaigne, the fantasy is planted firmly in the real world, the craft contextualized without losing any of its magnificence. This is why **Patrick Demarchelier’**s photograph for Vogue of Natalia Vodianova in front of the Dior atelier in Paris-an arresting image styled by Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington that opens Demarchelier’s new book, Dior Couture (Rizzoli)-is all the more exceptional. To photograph haute couture is to build an elaborate, imaginary world that extends far beyond the limits of one single frame.
