Belted waist, veil and wide skirt. Dior elegantly spins the 1950s

The image is almost an anachronism. Under the impressive installation of the contemporary Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, Dior created music with measured luxury and retro notes for autumn-winter 2023-2024. On this second day of Paris Fashion Week, set as always in the heart of the Tuileries Gardens, the Parisian brand presents a modern mirror of the recapture of 1950s femininity. Designed with precise lines and vintage details, including long gloves and knee-highs, Maria Grazia Chiuri intends to review today.

Ex-wives of the 50s

This decade belongs to Christian Dior. He who launched his first successful show in 1947 and left his fashion house an orphan after an early death in 1957, would be one of the great actors of this look, which laid the foundation for the modern elegance of the design. But it is also three women under whose auspices Maria Grazia Chiuri presented her new collection. There is Catherine Dior, the sister, but above all the resister, deported in 1944 and released in 1945, who would give her name to the famous Miss Dior perfume. Juliette Greco, whose career was born at the beginning of the decade. And finally, Edith Piaf, whose piece-monument I don’t regret anything accompanies the footsteps of the models with feelings.

“With my memories I lit the fire”

Nothing like the shivers of La Môme to thrill an audience. Even more so with a Dior fashion show featuring international celebrities such as K-Pop figure Jisoo or Charlize Theron. An accent band that envelops the ruffles of wide skirts, belts that draw a thin line at the waist or even three-quarter length sleeves, subtly revealing the birth of the wrists. An ode to the luxury of this fantasized era, shaken by bold notes: a crumpled fabric, a contrasting floral pattern, a roaring leopard. Ultimately, a dressing room that, unable to ignore the past, looks at it through the eyes of the present.

In the video, the parade of stars for Dior in the Tuileries Garden