A huge gray box stands on the Place de la Concorde.
Difficult to clear a path to approach the entrance of the Dior Men show, this Friday afternoon, as the public found itself in droves to try to see a celebrity.
Inside, guests (including footballer David Beckham and K-pop singer Jimin) take their seats on darkened bleachers.
The faces of actors Robert Pattinson and Gwendoline Christie
(Game of Thrones)
appear on the wall.
They recite under the (sober) direction of the director Baillie Walsh and on the music of Max Richter, the poem by TS Eliot,
The Waste Land,
whose allusions to
Ovid
's Metamorphoses, to Buddhism and to Dante's
Divine Comedy
, cross with a fine observation of British culture, have made it one of the monuments of modernist poetry.
We know Kim Jones, the artistic director of the Dior man, bibliophile, citing in previous collections the influence of the Bloomsbury Group and…
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