Fall ’17 Couture: Christian Dior

Eliza Scarborough   |   03-07-2017

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67 - Maria

Maria Grazia Chiuri continues her exploration of Dior heritage, and for this couture collection travel was her key inspiration. For Chiuri, the atlas symbolises a desire for faraway lands, the need to travel to discover the world and oneself, to feel emotion, grow and evolve.

 

Artist Pietro Ruffo designed a magical setting of wildlife and wooden animals, where embroidered tarot cards became atlases on capes and evening gowns in silk and tulle, in grey powdered with pink or nocturnal shades of velvet. Elsewhere in the collection, inspiration is drawn from female explorers and their heroic flair for borrowing elements from the masculine wardrobe. This was portrayed through transforming menswear fabrics into shimmering surfaces on jackets, coats, blouses, and jumpsuits that recall aviator jackets and open into pleated culotte skirts.

 

When it comes to accessories, milliner Stephen Jones who this year celebrates his 20th year as Dior’s hat designer, nods to explorers such as Freya Stark with a masculine fedora.