Masters Of Flash

Every year since 2016, the house of Dior has invited a coterie of artists to use its lady dior bag as a blank canvas for painting, sculptural assemblage and all-round imaginative freedom. Despite the circumstances of 2020, this distillation of the maison’s haute couture savoir faire did not stop and this year’s dior lady art has in fact yielded some of the most thoughtful (and fun) interpretations of the tote from the initiative. As these limited-edition pieces hit the brand’s ngee ann city boutique this month, gordon ng zeroes in on the brains behind 13 of them.

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OLGA TITUS The Swiss artist’s work centres around trans culturalism (her grandparents were of Indian and Malaysian heritage) and an exploration of materiality that defies traditional “flat” art. To wit, her ornate embroidered sequinned paintings – she had studied embroidery design before taking up fine art – that she sees as the creation of a “third space”, open to multiple readings. This technique of hers married particularly well with the haute couture codes of Dior, translated onto a small and a mini version of the Lady Dior through a double-faceted finish in a kaleidoscope of colour and texture. An additional creation – in mini – is adorned with little decorative masks from cultures spanning Asia to Africa and is her homage to the arts of the world.