Dior is one of the most examined and commented on fashion houses every fashion week. For autumn-winter 2024-2025, he just presented his new collection on February 27, 2024 in Paris, in the Tuileries garden. Its artistic director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, was inspired by the beginnings of Dior ready-to-wear, in 1967, then under the direction of Marc Bohan (CEO of Dior from 1961 to 1989, who died in September 2023). Because until then, high fashion houses avoided ready-to-wear, before finally daring to take inspiration from the young people of the street. It is therefore a crucial period in which fashion turns towards greater freedom, fluidity and lightness, abandoning more pompous forms.
Inspirations from the Dior autumn-winter 2024-2025 fashion show
It is this new ease, which smacks of female emancipation, that we can perceive from the opening look of this Dior autumn-winter 2024-2025 fashion show by Maria Grazia Chiuri. The latter consisted of an ivory silk shirt, decorated with a gold bauble-adorned necklace, a double-breasted beige wool coat with black buttons over matching straight trousers and just the right amount, worn with flat shoes and a small shoulder bag with leopard pattern and jewel closure.
Maria Grazia Chiuri then presented a ready-to-wear collection with Sixties accents, rather minimalist, full of Bar dresses, often crossed out with the words “Miss Dior”, a style slogan imagined by the textile designer Alexandre Sache in 1970. Beige the initial look then gives way to black and white versions, then to washed denim and leopard, a bit of tartan and a lot of tweed, before the final silhouettes full of pearls in champagne tones. Note the attempt to follow the trend no pants through a gray blazer worn over a black turtleneck, embroidered Christian Dior briefs to which garter belts cling.
Rihanna was conspicuous by her absence at the Dior show, while there are rumors that she will return to being a muse
In the front row, no Rihanna in sight. However, she was seen at the Palace of Versailles on February 20, 2024 and was rumored to be filming a new Dior advertisement. This would formalize her return as the house’s muse. In fact, in 2015 (around Raf Simons, CEO of the fashion house from 2012 until that year), she became the face of a cult campaign, called “ Secret Garden “.
In a song he revealed exclusively for the occasion, “ Goodnight Gotham » (which has since appeared on his album Anti, published in 2016), stroll through the hall of mirrors and French gardens of the former residence of the kings of France as if he were at home. This is why her return to Versailles, added to the fact that she was recently seen holding two Dior bags at once, as well as her notable presence at Dior’s haute couture show in January, have sparked such rumors.
Natalie Portman, Rosalía, Xin Liu, Jisoo… The stars in the front row at the Dior fashion show
On the other hand, we saw, in the front row of this Dior ready-to-wear autumn-winter 2024-2025 show, Natalie Portman, Deva Cassel (daughter of Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci), Juliette Armanet, Maisie Williams, Laetitia Casta, Jennifer Lawrence, Rosalia,
The scenography of the Dior autumn-winter 2024-2025 fashion show
As a backdrop to the scenography, there were female sculptures in the style of rattan armour, created by the Indian artist Shakuntala Kulkarni.
As for the soundtrack, you could hear Jane Birkin, whispering “ I don’t love you either », which Bardot had initially recorded with Serge Gainsbourg in 1967, the date of birth of this Miss Dior ready-to-wear. While the controversial singer, who died in 1991, caused a scandal again following the opening of the Maison Gainsbourg and the inauguration of a metro station in his name, deemed unbearable given his sexism and his promotion of rape culture, including ‘incest, this musical choice is enough to raise questions. But this is exactly what Maria Grazia Chiuri loves to do: push us to the limit with her artistic choices, while at the same time offering commercial collections that will sell like hot cakes. Behind the female gauzebusiness is business.
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Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
