Once upon a time, Little Red Riding Hood and Alice in Wonderland went shopping on avenue Montaigne.
But don't think that these young girls (in a Grisaille tweed jacket with a hood and a short dress with puff sleeves) would trust the first wolf to come or drink whatever vial they were given at a party.
With their black painted eyes, their thorn-strap ballerinas or their half-Victorian, half-punk shoes, they are not vulnerable creatures, waiting for their prince charming to fulfill their destiny.
This is more or less the message sent by Maria Grazia Chiuri, artistic director of Dior, whose next fall-winter evokes, you guessed it, the fairy tale.
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The Italian is not the first, nor the last, to draw the thread of the tale which, by its dreamlike dimension but also by its ambiguity, has always inspired couturiers.
But she extracts from it a story, a setting and a moral which resonate particularly
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