{"id":101094,"date":"2020-10-20T04:11:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sobarnes.com\/all-destinations\/dior-au-dela-de-la-mode\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T06:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:34:15","slug":"dior-beyond-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sobarnes.com\/en\/so-barnes-en\/so-trendy\/dior-beyond-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dior: beyond fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Dior's Spring-Summer 2021 fashion show has made such an impression, it\u2019s because of its extraordinary alchemy between fashion, the avant-garde and reflection on the place and image of women in our society. We look back at an event that has transcended the framework of a ready-to-wear collection to become a global artistic manifesto.<\/strong><\/p>\n

PARIS -\u00a0Rarely has the traditional tent set up in the Jardin des Tuileries to host the Paris Fashion Week shows ever hosted such creative splendour. For Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior\u2019s Artistic Director, each collection consists not only of conceiving a series of pieces designed to accommodate the body of the woman who wears them, but it also entails a reflection on societal transformations, or a reaction to current events. For the Spring-Summer 2021 collection, Chiuri paradoxically transforms the Dior silhouette to respect its heritage: the subversive radicality of its origins.<\/p>\n

For example, the structure of the Bar<\/em> jacket transforms in a reinterpretation of selected autumn-winter 1957 Dior silhouettes created for Japan. The addition of laces allows it to be adapted as the wearer wishes. The suit dresses each woman in a unique manner. Chiuri draws inspiration from those women who, through their writings, illuminate life and emotion: poets, intellectuals, authors. Members of an idealised academy. In the intimacy of their homes, their places of work, wrapped in infinite layers of colour, like Virginia Woolf, or dressed in a simple white shirt, like Susan Sontag<\/p>\n