Maria Grazia Chiuri seeks to boost Dior’s feminist credentials with a collection inspired by daredevil women
For the second week in a row, a venerable French fashion house has taken the reins of high fashion.
After last weekend’s surprise of a Givenchy royal wedding dress, Christian Dior on Thursday recreated a Mexican rodeo in a French chateau near Paris, at a catwalk show for 725 guests. The Dior muses for this season’s cruise collection are the escaramuzas, female riders who compete in the male-dominated rodeos, performing daredevil manoeuvres at breakneck speed while riding sidesaddle. Eight of them, their Christian Dior emblazoned belts matched to their wide-brimmed hats, opened the show performing with their horses.
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