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Paris fashion week: Dior champions goddess gowns and 1920s glamour
Fashion house takes inspiration from Olympic Games in grandest sense for show in garden of Musée Rodin
Her latest Dior haute couture show was staged in the garden of the Musée Rodin, a stone’s throw from the grand open space of Esplanade des Invalides, where banks of seating are already being erected in preparation for the archery competitions of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. So this season’s Dior was Olympian in the grandest sense: classically draped goddess gowns, with asymmetric necklines cut to expose a shoulder and skirts cascading in silken layers. Milliat, who fought to establish the first Women’s Olympic Games in 1922, is belatedly being recognised in France, where a hall at a new sports arena at Porte de la Chapelle is being named after her.
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