Paris 2024 Olympics: Lady Gaga, Aya Nakamura & Céline Dion's ceremonial outfits on display at Dior

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will remain engraved in the annals of sport .... but also of fashion! It's a fact: Paris is the capital of fashion. So what better than a global event to showcase the very best?

The inauguration of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with its Fashion Week feel, offered a catwalk to a handful of international superstars dressed to the nines. While the avant-garde of French couture was in the starting-blocks, the leader was undoubtedly the House of Dior, which dressed the evening's headliners.

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Majestic, iconic and Haute Couture, these flamboyant creations, veritable banners of French fashion and savoir-faire, flashed across our screens during the opening ceremony. Dresses embroidered with pearls for Céline Dion, pink & black feathers for Lady Gaga and gold feathers for Aya Nakamura, all found a place of choice among the other silhouettes in the Dior "museum". And don't forget the masterful dress in the colors of the French flag! Sublimated by the lyric singer Axelle Saint-Cirel during the event, it too joined the exhibition gallery and became the House's standard for the duration of the Games, and even until September 30.

Have you fallen in love with these models? Come and discover them with your own eyes in the Galerie Diorfashion exhibition until September 30, 2024.