“The new Dior ambassador Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi, wearing a #DiorSS21 denim jumpsuit paired with printed scarf and ’D-Connect’ sneakers, brought a breath of fresh urban allure to the virtual front row of House friends watching the unveiling of the #DiorCouture Spring-Summer 2021 collection by @MariaGraziaChiuri,” Dior captioned the photo.
The new collection was inspired by the world of the tarot, which Creative Director
Maria Grazia Chiuri revealed was a world much-loved by Monsieur Christian Dior. Maria noted on Instagram, “In times of uncertainty, such as the one we are currently living in and the one experienced by Monsieur Dior after the war, the need for an optimistic view of the future is essential.”
“Le château du tarot”, short film presenting new collection from Dior
Take your seat to discover the #DiorCouture Spring-Summer 2021 collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri in an exclusive film. https://t.co/GxTrdjJyTS Dior (@Dior) January 25, 2021
Directed by Matteo Garrone, famed Italian director (Pinocchio, tale of tales), it presents the newest collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, inspired by astrology and tarot. The film is imbued by the symbolism of the Major Arcana meeting the superb tailoring of the costumes. The high priestess opening the film, with the fool serving as our guide through the manor in an anagnorisis journey, meeting other Arcana like the hanged man, representing the sacrifices to attain knowledge, the temperance for self control, the lovers before ionic columns and double stairs, and the devil, always in the path to achieve the Gnosis.
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Every Single Look From Dior s Winter 2021 Show
Stars and lovely overcoats and berets and boots and we want all of it Dior
Dior has always been something of a spectacle during the Paris leg of show season. And though show season isn t like
normal show season (for obvious reasons), the house, which has been headed up by designer Kim Jones for some time now, has still managed to make a SHOW (capital letters fully intended) at a government-approved social distance.
This time, the spectacle was achieved by setting what seemed to be a very traditional runway – long corridor, thumping music, impossibly chiselled models – among the stars, and threading together the abstract works of Scottish artist Peter Doig with pop cultural influences from the last 100 years. That s not an exaggeration. There were paintings of Monsieur Dior s late gooooood boy poochie Bobby, and berets of Judy Blame s Buffalo Boy
Why Dior Men s fantastical new collection is the perfect antidote to the lockdown doldrums
Kim Jones collaborates with the artist Peter Doig on a collection celebrating all things special and beautifully-made
22 January 2021 • 5:28pm
The collection is a collaboration between Kim Jones and painter Peter Doig
Credit: Brett Lloyd
While we await the vaccine rollout, Kim Jones, creative director of Dior menswear, has been quietly formulating his own sartorial shot in the arm. After ten long months of lockdowns, and the steady slide into casualisation in how we dress day after day, Jones provided just the dressed-up antidote in the form of his autumn/winter 21 show for the house, broadcast digitally from Paris.
Brett Lloyd
If Dior Men s fall show was fashion s equivalent of the Big Bang, then its successor was the age of space colonization. Before, there were Pete Tong pinks and Bjorkian hair buns that sprang forth from a graphic wall presumably printed at the centre of the universe. But now, creative director Kim Jones is charting a star course to a well-dressed, not-so-distant future and it looks like one in which the laws of time and space are beginning to make even less sense than the ending of Christopher Nolan s
Tenet. The difference here, however, is that Dior s winter show was a pleasure to watch.