Reading is one of the great joys in my life. I find it’s always a great way to learn about new books that I might not be exposed to. One of my favorite things on Instagram is to find friends or people I’m curious about who I find have similar reading tastes, and then find out what they’re reading. Speaking of social media, you have built a community around books. If there’s any plus side to social media, I think that that’s it, where people are really given the opportunity to communicate directly and be able to express themselves the way they would like to express themselves.
That’s happened so much and continues to happen: people trying to frame a woman’s life, or a girl’s life, in the way they want to and not allowing the girl, or later the woman, to author her own existence. But I do think that that is just an extraordinary amount of spotlight, and having other people try and create your narrative for you. I think she had such a different level of attention and focus on her. Well, I can’t compare my experience to hers at all. The fragrance itself is a profusion of flowers, with the signature Centifolia rose and lily of the valley alongside newcomers peony and iris so is the campaign film, partially set in fields of never-ending blossoms. Now comes a new iteration of the Miss Dior eau de parfum, as reconsidered by master nose François Demachy. “Make me a perfume scented with love,” the designer put it, his poetic dictates doubling as prescient marketing savvy. That tracks with Christian Dior’s original vision. (When she accepted her Oscar for the role, her new husband, Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied, and their future baby got a shoutout.) “It felt very much in line with this world of beauty and joy and sensuality that Miss Dior exists in,” she recalled. If the ballet thriller followed the character’s downward spiral, that first fragrance campaign mirrored her real-life swoon. “It’s funny, because it was a dark role, but-I think because I was falling in love with my husband at the time-it had this feeling of great romance and excitement and joy for me,” the actor said in a call earlier this summer from Sydney, where she was filming the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder.
It was coincidentally around the time of Portman’s 2010 Black Swan that she joined as a face of Dior perfumes. If the animal were to evoke a pop-cultural figure, it would most certainly be cinema’s favorite cygnet Natalie Portman. Illustrator René Gruau encapsulated the moment with an advertisement at once painterly, austere, and clairvoyant: In it, a swan, wearing nature’s triangular black eye makeup, poses with a triple strand of pearls and a blousy bow. Rectilinear and “cut like a suit,” as the couturier put it, the Miss Dior perfume bottle featured an engraved houndstooth motif, along with a black ribbon reminiscent of a bow tie.
In 1950, three years after Christian Dior unveiled his wasp-waisted New Look, the house’s debut fragrance earned itself a redesigned flacon.
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