Lecce, Dior's fashion show was not authorized by the Superintendence

The controversial Christian Dior fashion show, which closed down half the city of Lecce between Tuesday and today to allow the staging of the event in Piazza Duomo (about three quarters of an hour, with no live audience, broadcast only through the French fashion house’s social channels), was not authorized by the superintendence. This was revealed by the Sud Salento section of Italia Nostra, which asked the Soprintendenza per l’Archeologia, le Belle Arti e il Paesaggio for the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce, and Taranto whether Dior’s sets were authorized.

The superintendency let the association know that Dior sent the application only on July 17, when the set-up had already begun (operations kicked off on July 14), and not in the technical timeframe needed for the superintendency to instruct the file and express its opinion (at least 30 days before the date of the event). As a result, since the application arrived at the superintendence only five days before the parade, it follows that permission could not proceed.

And there is now disappointment at how an affair went that, beyond opinions on the appropriateness of the choice of location and the fact that to allow the event a part of Lecce’s historic center was barred to access for many hours, was “carried out without the appropriate technical and cultural evaluations that are primarily the responsibility of the state bodies in charge,” Italia Nostra points out. Not to mention that “with the placement of such a scenographic has been precluded, for about 15 days, the possibility for many (tourists, scholars, devotees, etc.) to admire the artistic-architectural peculiarities of Piazza Duomo in Lecce thus giving a negative image of the way in which in Lecce and in Salento cultural heritage is protected and enhanced.”

Pictured are the sets set up by Dior in Piazza Duomo.

Lecce, Dior's fashion show was not authorized by the Superintendence

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