Superintendent of Lecce v. Dior: anachronistic, reductive, and avuncular fittings

She says she regrets the way things turned out, Lecce Superintendent Maria Piccarreta, regarding the Christian Dior fashion show held in Lecce’s Piazza Duomo on Wednesday night. For two reasons: first, because as we explained yesterday, the superintendence had not authorized the setting up of the apparatus for the event, since the request from the French fashion house had come too late to allow the technicians of the Superintendence for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto to do their work. In fact, the request for the opinion did not reach the superintendence’s offices until July 17, three days after Dior had begun assembling the sets in Piazza Duomo.

And then because, according to Piccarreta, the sets chosen by Dior and created by artist Marinella Senatore were not suitable for the square. According to the superintendent, it was a set design “completely divorced from the protected historical context, anachronistic and reductive of the architectural scenery present in the invaded square of exceptional relevance”: the illuminations, which were intended to be a tribute to the typical tradition of Puglia’s square festivals, entirely covered the monuments of Piazza Duomo. In short, an event that made fashion enthusiasts exult but that, from the point of view of protection and even enhancement, can only make people discuss and also a lot.

Superintendent of Lecce v. Dior: anachronistic, reductive, and avuncular fittings

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