Dior parades between riding and material games

(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 05 - In the next winter season Madame Dior has decided that it will show off all its refined elegance between country walks on horseback and exclusive evening parties in the country clubs to which it belongs. Her royal wardrobe should match her lifestyle. But in order to achieve it, the creative director of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, wanted to regain possession of the values ​​of haute couture, close to that segment of rarefied life during which the Dior collections conceived by the designer were revealed mainly through cinema. In the new collection, which includes a series of coats and capes of rare beauty, worn with coordinated riding hats, the materiality of the fabric becomes shape, so that the subversive language of embroidery is expressed through a project that becomes a dress.In the pedana, a series of garments alternate that find in the refined textile, expressed by dozens of variations of check, tweed, different tactility and dimensions in black and white, the possibility of creating multiple warp and weft structures. The Dior haute couture FW 2021-2022 collection is part of a reboot post-pandemic context. In returning to show in "presence", albeit with caution and few guests in the room, the creative director of Dior wanted to shift her attention towards materiality. A concept that translated also means reinterpreting embroidery not as a decorative ornament, but as a matter connected to the senses of sight and touch. Ideas from the book Threads of Life (2019) by Clare Hunter, textile artist and curator, and from the work Chambre de soie, created by the French artist Eva Jospin,which lends itself to wrapping the fashion show. The walls are adorned with 1 to 1 scale embroidery that alludes to the Embroidery Room of Palazzo Colonna, decorated with Indian tapestries. This creation represents a scene, a precious background for magnificent dresses in the pleats, in the trains, in the hand-woven chains that draw motifs on the body, in colors dear to Monsieur Dior such as dusty blue or nude. Or for a green dress on which an unexpected embroidery emerges. (HANDLE).in colors dear to Monsieur Dior such as dusty blue or nude. Or for a green dress on which an unexpected embroidery emerges. (HANDLE).in colors dear to Monsieur Dior such as dusty blue or nude. Or for a green dress on which an unexpected embroidery emerges. (HANDLE).