Set on a snowy winter night in 1949, the film imagines an urgent commission: Marlene Dietrich needs a dress after her Hollywood director decides to shoot in color. Christian Dior and his atelier work through the night to create a gown inspired by the house’s celebrated Junon design. The fictional story draws on the real friendship between the couturier and actress.

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Nov 7 2026 update:
Cartoon Brew reports that, while this short was advertised as being “hand crafted” and they themselves describing it as “hand-drawn”, many people noticed clear indicators of machine-extruded imagery being used.

Variety is reporting that machine-extruded images were used for in-betweening:

But Chomet and Soumache tell Variety that the film was created using traditional 2D animation techniques, with the characters, backgrounds and key poses drawn by artists. While they acknowledge using automated interpolation to generate some of the intermediate frames that make movement fluid, the pair insists that generative AI was never used to create the artwork.

“We used an automated interpolation system for a very small part of the process, but the film itself is traditional 2D animation,” says the French producer.