July 13, 2021 / Eye on the Collective
Painting for Dior
Tanvi Pathare
A collaboration between realist painter Tanvi Pathare and Dior. Fine art and fashion meet to create beautiful one of a kind travel trunks.
Tanvi Pathare, FAA Graduate and Principal Instructor, contributed to the world of fashion recently, thanks to her commission from the house of Dior, to take part in an exciting project to create specialized travel trunks to showcase diminutive Dior Couture Autumn-Winter 2020-2021 designs by Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Fine art and fashion meet to create beautiful one of a kind travel trunks.
These trunks that house this historically influenced yet contemporary miniature line are crafted in pine with leather and brass elements and are lined in white cotton and linen in the manner of the toiles which each finish dress started life.
Artisan lays Tanvi’s
hand-painted canvas
Artisan lays Tanvi’s
hand-painted canvas
The outside design of the box, in which Tanvi Pathare played an integral role in creating, features a hand-painted depiction of the famous facade of 30 Avenue Montaigne, the flagship location of Dior in Paris, France. This project combines cabinetmaking leather working, and painting, all areas in which France, the home of Dior, can boast an exceptional pedigree, and explore the broadened definition of #DiorSavoirFaire required to construct these specialized trunks.
More about Tanvi
Tanvi Pathare, born in Mumbai, India, showed a growing interest in the fine arts since a very early age. She graduated with honors from the prestigious Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where she received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting. Following the allure of the realistic tradition of painting from nature, Tanvi attended The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy, graduating from the Painting Program in 2012. During her second year, she won the award for Best Figure Painting in the Intermediate Program, and in her final year, she was awarded Honorable Mention for Exceptional Overall Performance in Advanced Painting. She is recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Painting (2012), and a finalist in the Figurative Category of the ARC International Salon 2012-2013.
Tanvi presently works in her private studio in Florence while continuing to be an instructor in the Academy’s Drawing and Painting Program. Her work is represented by the Hagan Fine Art gallery in Charleston SC and by Martin House Gallery in North Carolina. Her work hangs in private collections in America, Europe and Asia.
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