Peter Lindbergh’s final book project brings seven decades of Dior into the restless public space of Times Square. For the New York shoot, the house sent an exceptional group of garments from its Paris archives across the Atlantic, allowing designs from Christian Dior’s 1947 Bar suit to work by Maria Grazia Chiuri to enter a landscape of crowds, scaffolding, electronic signs, and reflective façades. Fashion history is not treated as a sealed chronology: it is exposed to the interruptions and velocity of the street.

Lindbergh photographed models including Alek Wek, Saskia de Brauw, Karen Elson, and Amber Valletta amid this urban commotion. His monochrome and color images attend closely to silhouette, construction, and textile surface while resisting the isolation of a conventional studio record. Bodies, garments, architecture, and passersby repeatedly share the frame. The tension between couture’s deliberate workmanship and Times Square’s visual overload gives the series its particular charge.

The New York photographs are set alongside more than 100 earlier images of Dior creations made during Lindbergh’s long association with the house. Drawn from fashion editorials and campaigns, this archival selection ranges across haute couture, ready-to-wear, and clothing for women and men. The book therefore operates on two registers: as a concentrated account of one ambitious late project, and as a broader record of how Lindbergh interpreted Dior over the course of his career. It includes 165 previously unpublished pictures from the Times Square shoot and an introduction by Martin Harrison.

Published by TASCHEN in 2024, the 504-page hardcover was designed by Lindbergh’s longtime collaborator Juan Gatti. For collectors, its importance lies not in a claim of scarcity but in the structure of the collaboration it preserves: newly published work, a substantial historical selection, and a design shaped by someone closely connected to the photographer. Together they offer a focused study of how an established fashion vocabulary can be reanimated through location, casting, and photographic authorship.