Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri moved from her debut’s feminist T-shirts into a fantasy world that heralded a bold new attitude
Maria Grazia Chiuri made headlines three months ago with a Christian Dior debut which featured T-shirts proclaiming “We should all be feminists”. Three months later, those prescient T-shirts have been seen on Natalie Portman and Rihanna at the women’s marches this weekend, and their imminent arrival in store was a hot topic of front row conversation at the creative director’s first haute couture collection for the house.
However, Chiuri’s take on the zeitgeist has moved on, so that rather than protest T-shirts, she offered pure escapism. Having negotiated the security checks which are now a familiar feature of Paris catwalk shows, the ultra high-rolling shoppers traversing the gardens of the Musée Rodin where the show was staged were confronted with a full-sized maze constructed from hedges, prettily strewn with out-of-season berries.
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