Despite big questions there is little challenging in Maria Grazia Chiuri’s haute couture
“What If Women Ruled the World?” That was the question hanging over Christian Dior’s haute couture show in Paris – literally, in the form of a giant silk embroidered banner above the models’ heads. Twenty one banners punctuated the catwalk, suspended above head height like placards on a protest: “Would Old Women be Revered?”, “Would Buildings Resemble Wombs?” and “Would the Earth be Protected?”
Maria Grazia Chiuri, the creative director of Dior, collaborated with the 80-year-old American feminist artist Judy Chicago for the show. Described as “the godmother of vagina art” Chicago is back in vogue in the era of Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina-scented candle and Janelle Monáe’s labia trousers.
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