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Dior’s polished Paris show reflects blockbuster paradox of world we live in
Luxury fashion house has become bigger, more profitable and more high profile, but also more radical and values-driven
Actors Natalie Portman and Jennifer Lawrence wear fairytale Dior gowns on the red carpet, while catwalk collections are constructed around deep-dive narratives of the ways women of colour have been overlooked in fashion history. The inflated scale of Riri’s jacket was a paparazzi-friendly take on Chiuri’s most recent collaboration, with the textile artist Isabella Ducrot, who created an installation of five-metre-high dresses to line the walls of the catwalk venue. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty ImagesThe world of haute couture is in the spotlight this year, with a high-profile biopic of Cristóbal Balenciaga streaming on Disney+ and an Apple TV series The New Look, about Christian Dior and his contemporaries, on screens next month.
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