From Innocence to Experience: Raf Simons at Dior Couture

The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych painted by Hieronymus Bosch between 1590 and 1610, was the starting point for Raf Simons’ present Christian Dior Haute Couture Collection for Autumn-Winter 2015-16. In the painting, the left panel depicts Eve, presented to Adam by God in the landscape of paradise. The central panel, full of all sorts of fleshly pursuits, is one of mainly naked people, weird animals and giant fruit – and that fruit is significant for…