Filming With The Ghost Of Dior

Christian Dior haunts the rooms of his former atelier, so say seamstresses who have worked for the company for decades - and now someone else, the director of  new fashion documentary Dior and I, can corroborate their claims.

"It was very intense, shooting those night scenes in the atelier," Frédéric Tcheng said. "You could sense that there was a spirit there, and it was just us in the dark with the security guy, and there would be all these sounds of pipes, and it was just… you could sense a presence."

More than just causing a distraction to filming, Dior's presence influenced Tcheng's filmmaking, he revealed, with long slow shots and a haunting voiceover.

Norman Parkinson for Dior

"I was interested in this idea of what remains in the past and the present and how alive that is," Tcheng told The Cut. "The idea of ghosts and spirits and cinema. All these questions have to do with the present."

Tcheng, who also directed Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, premiered the film at Tribeca Film Festival last week.