To celebrate a decade of Dior Lady Art, the French maison has once again handed the reins to ten contemporary artists from around the world, giving them carte blanche to transform the iconic Lady Dior into a work of art. Among this year’s contributors is Kuwaiti visual artist Alymamah Rashed, whose deeply personal and poetic lens brings an ethereal, almost otherworldly transformation to the classic silhouette.
Originally introduced in 1995 and famously gifted to Princess Diana (hence the name), the Lady Dior has become synonymous with elegance, craftsmanship, and quiet power. Its cannage stitching, structured shape, and dangling charms are instantly recognizable. But in the hands of artists like Rashed, it becomes something more.
The artist’s contribution to the anniversary edition is strikingly distinct and unmistakably hers. One of her reimaginings features a lush explosion of sculptural pink floral forms blooming across the bag’s white body. It’s a visual garden, accented by golden hardware and soft mint-green handles in a surreal and sensory tribute to femininity, nature, and movement. The other bag, by contrast, leans into texture and materiality: a shimmering mosaic of pearls, embroidery, and beadwork that evokes ocean tides and desert mirages. A seashell swirl sits beneath the surface, almost like a memory, while the gold handles and signature Dior charms glisten like buried treasure.
