Two Autobiographies

Dior’s voice-over narrator reading his memoir, which at the beginning of the film accompanied only the B&W archival footage from the 1940s and ’50s, is later linked to footage of Simons’ team today. 

The interweaving of Dior’s voice with today’s footage further blurs the line between Christian Dior and Raf Simons and alludes to a certain fusion of the two narrators.

In the end, when Simons's first show is about to begin, Dior and Simons’ stories overlap, illustrating the shared public identity of the two designers. Dior’s narrator voice, expressing his nervousness before the show, is combined with footage of Simons appearing equally stressed. For Simons, this is his third layer of identity; besides his private and public selves, he must perform as Dior’s designer in public for the first time.