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Dior enjoys Oscars glow with show of reinvention at Paris fashion week
Fresh from dressing Mikey Madison, Maria Grazia Chiuri draws on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in new twist on classics
And so, in the Tuileries garden, Chiuri took an everyday basic – the white shirt – turned it on its head, and placed it front and centre in a monumental five-act show that featured mechanical pterodactyls, giant boulders, flashing lights and a lot of lace. This time it was Virginia Woolf and her novel Orlando, a theme that has been endlessly plundered by fashion, inspiring (among others) Burberry, Fendi, Givenchy, an entire Met gala and, latterly, Harry Styles’s penchant for a gobstopper pearl. In teeing up clothes that work for both sexes, there is every chance the Italian-born Chiuri, who has been at Dior since 2016, is responding to rumours that she will leave, and that Jonathan Anderson – the Irish designer who made avant garde fashion commercial at Loewe – will take on both men’s and women’s.
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