Heels and corsets, these restrictive pieces from which women have taken centuries to free themselves, are coming back in force to give them power in the Dior collection inspired by Catherine de Medici, presented Tuesday in Paris in a baroque atmosphere. “The idea that amused me is that there are elements in clothes that serve to build a regal imagination“, tells AFP the Italian Maria Grazia Chiuri, artistic director of the women’s collections of Dior. Feminist, she diverts these elements that we would never have associated with her creative universe for this “ironic power dressing“, modern and functional despite the historical references.
In the front row, fashion popess Anna Wintour and young influencer Lena Situations, actresses Isabelle Adjani, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Palermo, Marisa Berenson or top Elle Macpherson watched this disconcerting fashion show accompanied by a dance show in the pavilion. in the Tuileries Garden.
This new show also attracted members of princely families such as Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya, Princess of Thailand, but also and above all our neighbors from the Rock, Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Beatrice Borromeo, wife of Pierre Casiraghi. The two sisters-in-law took turns posing before posing side by side and showing their complicity in front of the cameras.
Many other stars were present: Camille Cottin, Natalie Portman, South Korean singer Jisoo, star of Blackpink, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Maggie Gyllenhaall and her daughter Ramona, Juliette Armanet, Nine d’Urso, daughter of Inès De La Fressange, Jack Lang and his wife Monique, Lionel Jospin, his wife Sylviane and their daughter Eva, Katherine Langford, Nadia Farès, Alexandra Daddario and Chiara Ferragni among others.
All came to admire the work of the Italian Maria Grazia Chiuri, and much more, as she hopes: “In this heavy historical moment, fashion is the only territory where we can still play, that’s what I wanted to do at the moment. The situation is tragic, we must find motivation to work“. “At the time, the Baroque gardens were the spaces that were out of control compared to the palace which, on the contrary, was rigid and codified,” French artist Eva Jospin told AFP. sculpted this cave in layers of cardboard, his favorite material, “a waste that we magnify“.”There is a great freedom in this way of looking at creation, the idea of creating your own world. When we go through difficult times, creating our own world is a huge resource that we can all draw on..”