Controversy, frivolity mark day one of Paris Fashion Week
January 26, 2023 GMTPARIS (AP) — The pioneering Black performer Josephine Baker — who left the United States to find global fame in Paris in the 1920s — was Dior’s muse for an old school spring couture collection of archetypal classicism.
Dior does folklore in Paris couture, riffing on Ukraine art
July 4, 2022 GMTPARIS (AP) — Images of traditional embroideries and floral paintings adorned the walls of Dior’s celebrity-laden runway homage to Ukraine as Paris' four-day Couture Week kicked off Monday.
The set, from Ukrainian artist Olesia Trofymenko, was the starting point for designer Maria Grazia Chiuri who returned this season to the atelier’s needle-and-thread.
Dior reimagines feminist fashion in history in Paris show
March 1, 2022 GMTPARIS (AP) — Dior’s affirmed feminist designer Maria Grazia Chiuri used the male gaze, as reflected in female oil portraits across the centuries, to make a fashion statement on female empowerment and subjugation.
Dior celebrates couture craft, as maskless Delevingne irks
January 24, 2022 GMTPARIS (AP) — The atelier — the workshop of hands — took the Dior center stage on Monday for a refined show on the first day of Paris couture week, which aims to elevate the work of the house’s behind-the-scenes seamstresses.
Paris ready-to-wear makes comeback with Dior, Saint Laurent
September 28, 2021 GMTPARIS (AP) — Paris Fashion Week is back after a coronavirus-related hiatus. The high fashion world went mainly digital for a year over the pandemic, but big hitters like Chanel, Hermes and Louis Vuitton are finally returning to the live runway this season.
Dior invokes #MeToo in feminist-inspired fashion show
February 25, 2020 GMT“Consent, Consent, Consent” flashed the neon set lights at Dior's latest ready-to-wear show in Paris...
Paris couture climbs Mount Olympus, plumbs marine depths
January 20, 2020 GMTPARIS (AP) — Female empowerment, controversies about race, and designs that plunged to the depths of the seas then climbed Mount Olympus were among themes to grace Paris Couture Week on its drama-filled first day...
Dior’s Chiuri channels black in Paris, receives top honor
July 1, 2019 GMTPARIS (AP) — Dior went back to the essential architecture of dressmaking, and the late designer's penchant for black, for a brooding display Monday of archetypally couture gowns.
Looking on inside the Parisian house's design studios on Avenue Montaigne were Gal Gadot and Shailene Woodley, who waited for the tardy couple Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, as actress Elisabeth Moss spoke to The Associated Press about women's empowerment.
A shimmering night in Dubai as Dior shows its haute couture
March 18, 2019 GMTDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Under a large circus-style tent, Dior showcased its latest haute couture collection to a crowd of Mideast-based fashionistas, social media figures, celebrities, buyers, designers and editors Monday night...
Dior celebrates sisterhood, ‘impertinent’ girls in Paris
February 26, 2019 GMTPARIS (AP) — Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri once again celebrated feminism and sisterhood in her collection for Christian Dior at Paris Fashion Week, delving into the independent youth subculture styles of 1950s Britain.