“A successful archival print is one that leaves a lasting impression.”
At the axis of a fortune teller and a historian sits the fashion designer; vigilantly studying the past, yet boldly dreaming of the future. Such was the position of couturier Christian Dior at the epochal unveiling of the New Look as he sparked a riptide that found itself at the heart of creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri's autumn/winter 2022 showing in March.
Paris's Bassin de L'Octogone at Jardin des Tuileries It also marked Chiuri's most daring homage to Dior's most integral elements: “This collection seeks to express the complexity of fashion that revisits heritage in order to conceive the lines of tomorrow. A journey that shapes the artefacts of a new world, another world, to be made and invented.”
