Dior channels rebellious women at Paris Fashion Week
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After Milan, global fashion's spotlight shifted to the final stretch of ready-to-wear shows in Paris on Tuesday, as the industry looks to the future with all the final fall trends.
After Milan, global fashion's spotlight shifted to the final stretch of ready-to-wear shows in Paris on Tuesday, as the industry looks to the future with all the final fall trends.
But displays in the French capital will also revisit the past this week, with homages to recently deceased designers Vivienne Westwood and Paco Rabanne.
Here are some highlights of Tuesday's fall-winter 2023-2024 collections, including Dior:
A surreal and colorful organic world awaited guests inside Paris' Tuileries gardens.
A spectacular Dior installation suggestive of a giant octopus spanned the length and breadth of the runway, its color-rich fabric tentacles gleaming with thousands of tiny lights. It was the work of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, who wanted to explore how organic form interacted with the "feminine realm of artisanal savoir-faire." It made for a dazzling backdrop especially given the flurry of paparazzi flashes snapping guests including model Elle Macpherson, K-pop star Jisoo and actresses Maisie Williams and Charlize Theron.
If the decor seemed futuristic, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri used the past as a touchstone in the clothes, resulting in less exuberance -- but no less flair.
Three women -- the house founder's sister Catherine Dior, a French resistance hero, as well as French singers Edith Piaf and Juliette Greco, each described as "rebellious, at once strong and fragile" -- were muses in this collection. It channeled the 1950s, Christian Dior's heyday.
