Dior
Maria Grazia Chiuri continues to seek out inspiration up to now, present, and way forward for femininity. For her spring/summer 2023 show, the designer referenced a Dior scarf from the ’50s with a map of Paris as a place to begin, and the legendary Tuileries Garden designed by Italian noblewoman Catherine de Medici. Chiuri combined town’s labyrinthine streets with Medici’s ground-breaking Sixteenth-century fashions, comparable to gueĚ‚pieĚ€res and wide court skirts, plus a dose of Dior’s signature florals and complex beading to create light-as-air day dresses, pajama shorts with jackets, and mini-meets-maxi panniers which can be liberating quite than constrictive. Artist Eva Jospin recreated Baroque caves for the show right in the center of the garden, bridging the gap of past and present and providing an earthly palace. As stated via press release: “Women know easy methods to explore magical territories since they’ve a privileged reference to nature and its vital force.”—Kevin LeBlanc, fashion associate
