Interview: Hajime Sorayama’s sculpture for Dior | Design | Dezeen

This video, exclusive to Dezeen, reveals how Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama created the giant female robot that took centre stage at Dior’s Pre-Fall 2019 menswear show in Tokyo. Kim Jones, artistic director of Dior menswear, commissioned Sorayama to create the giant, retro-futurist robot. It took the form of an “idealised woman“, with details embossed to resemble mechanical joints, nuts and bolts across its body. As shown in the movie, the figure was carved from a block of styrofoam and then coated in mu