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The LVMH label unveiled its latest collection
on the first day of a fashion week dedicated to the highest
echelon of couturiers, which runs until Jan. 25. The creations,
often handmade, are not meant for shops, and when sold are
usually exclusively tailored to one person.
Dior showed off its almost completely monochrome outfits on a
checkered catwalk. Models peered out from behind facemasks: some
feline, others like mailboxes, all of them black.
Famed Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali or Rene Magritte
often depicted bird cages or disjointed body parts in their art,
a motif evoked in the show with giant noses and ears dangling
over the runway and cage-like corsets worn on it.
Gowns and capes strewn with feathers or featuring waspy,
see-through fabrics also gave the collection a dream-like feel,
as did the geometric patterns or swirls on many dresses.
"Black and white is the color of the subconscious and I think
when you dream, you dream in black and white, so I decided it
would be great to make a collection in black and white," Dior's
chief designer Maria Grazia Chiuri told Reuters after the show.
Chiuri said in a press release she was also inspired by Italian
Surrealist artist Leonor Fini, a friend of Christian Dior, the
late founder of the house in the last 1940s.
The fashion house is set to host a masqued ball later on Monday,
also in the grounds of Paris' Rodin museum, the setting for the
show.
Dior's latest collection from Chiuri comes amid a shake-up at
the label, as former Fendi boss Pietro Beccari prepares to
replace long-standing CEO Sidney Toledano, who is moving to run
several other labels in the LVMH group.
(Reporting by Johnny Cotton, Writing by Sarah White, Editing by
William Maclean)
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