RESORT 2021
Simplification is an amplifying act. By reducing shapes to an elementary outline, letting material speak through color and texture and lines materialize through painstaking workmanship, simplification multiplies and maximizes possibilities. Clothing and the individual become one, taking on as many shades and variations as there are personalities. Freedom of interpretation incites freedom of movement.
An egalitarian collection that stems from the will to purify, rationalize, subtract in a gently radical way. Flat, elementarily geometric shapes result from a process of thoughtful definition effortlessly resolved in the mastery of cut.
Abstraction augments purposefulness. Pieces have a meaning when laid flat, and gain another one when inhabited by a body. Items cross from the masculine to the feminine, cut as if to make fabric seem to be barely laid on the body. Everything can be spontaneously assembled in a number of personal ways.
Solid and vibrant, colors define forms: shades of green, red, pink, compose a silhouette that is fluid, uncontrived and lean. An almost ascetic simplicity comes across as scheme-less, rather than imposing. Tunics, tops, trousers and capes are addends of geometric sums with the modular feel of uniform dressing. Tapestry motifs are completely dematerialized.
The Valentino Garavani Accessories are materic and tactile: flowers, bows, studs in leather or straw multiply on the Atelier Bags as well as on the Atelier Shoes, mixing the historic and the contemporary signs of Valentino with an emphasis on craft. Hats are developed in collaboration with Borsalino, bringing another atelier knowledge into the discourse.
Extravagance comes across as the spontaneous language of unbridled expression. As such, it is an egalitarian and liberating act.

Pierpaolo Piccioli continues his quest within gender neutrality and on the humanity of individuals, highlighting their feelings and emotions, despite their gender, age or ethnicity, by presenting the Resort Women’s and Men’s collection together. A unique vision that brings to life a story without storytelling.

VALENTINO RESORT 2021

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Alchemy is a form of magic, so the transformation of images, or bodies, in art acts on dream/psychic substance.* (Leonora Carrington)
<p style="line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 18.75pt;">&ldquo;Surrealist images manage to make visible what is in itself invisible. I&rsquo;m interested in mystery and magic, which are also a way of exorcising uncertainty about the future,&rdquo; says Maria Grazia Chiuri of her autumn-winter 2020-2021 haute couture collection.
<p style="line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 18.75pt;">During this unprecedented period, the Creative Director of Dior women&rsquo;s collections chose to focus on the work of artists such as Lee Miller, Dora Maar and Jacqueline Lamba, who transcended the role of &ldquo;muses&rdquo; to which their beauty had initially relegated them in order to champion &ndash; in their lives and surrealist works &ndash; a different femininity.
<p style="line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 18.75pt;">The new collection is imbued with that attitude: one that is connected, attuned to nature and transformation. Certain pieces display spectacular gradations of red, like a coral reef swaying in the glimmer of the ocean. The colors of paintings by Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning live on in these creations through luminous hues and dreamworlds.
<p style="line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 18.75pt;">The surrealists&rsquo; female body also conjures a reinterpretation of the miniature mannequin, a poetic emblem at the heart of the couture universe. The artist Cindy Sherman appropriates this almost magical object in one of her first video projects, which oscillates between the history of fashion and the possibility of a new representation; today, these miniatures make it possible to invent a different ritual.
<p style="line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 18.75pt;">And so, in a magical trunk embodying 30 Avenue Montaigne, the haute couture collection embarks on its world tour. Evoking Monsieur Dior&rsquo;s own odyssey, it echoes the Th&eacute;&acirc;tre de la Mode, a roving exhibition of styles by French couturiers that traveled between Europe and America right after the war.
<p style="line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 18.75pt;">The Dior Ateliers also played a major role in that adventure. Starting with haute couture &ldquo;day looks&rdquo;, with suits in men&rsquo;s fabrics of exceptional architecture representing a virtuoso feat, that of a perfectly-crafted, miniature creation. A coat reveals pleated layers. Draping evokes antique statues. Luminescence sublimates the gray and golden yellow tones, offering a dazzling brilliance.
<p style="line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 18.75pt;">Produced entirely by hand, the folds dressing these miniatures celebrate the beauty of the creative gesture, which is the essence of couture. And for the grand finale: a wedding gown, in keeping with tradition, a symbol forgotten over time.
<p style="line-height: 19.2pt; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 11.25pt 0cm 0.0001pt;">In this way, it feels only natural to recount the story of extraordinary haute couture silhouettes by reinterpreting the female body through the singular prism of the fashion doll.

The autumn-winter 2020-2021 haute couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri was exclusively revealed online, at the heart of a magical film entitled Le Mythe Dior, directed especially for the House by Matteo Garrone, the emblematic Italian filmmaker who recently signed Pinocchio.

DIOR AUTUMN-WINTER 20-21 HAUTE COUTURE COLLECTION

Dior Haute Couture Autumn Winter 2021 Lookbook ©brigitte Niedermair Look 36

The&nbsp;autumn-winter 2020-2021 haute couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri was exclusively revealed&nbsp;online, at the heart of&nbsp;a magical film entitled&nbsp;Le Mythe Dior,&nbsp;directed especially for the House by Matteo Garrone, the emblematic Italian filmmaker who recently signed&nbsp;Pinocchio.
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The Atelier&rsquo;s virtuoso miniature creations come to life&nbsp;as if by magic,&nbsp;traveling through a dreamlike,&nbsp;fantasy universe.&nbsp;Embodying a&nbsp;veritable&nbsp;alchemy of the Dior dream, mythology and the&nbsp;silver screen, this&nbsp;moment of&nbsp;enchantment pays homage to the&nbsp;Th&eacute;&acirc;tre de la mode,&nbsp;a unique event initiated in 1945 to promote French couture&nbsp;around&nbsp;the world,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Paris, more than ever,&nbsp;as the unrivaled&nbsp;capital of haute couture. Luxury being above all&nbsp;about the&nbsp;beauty of gesture, imbued with emotion and&nbsp;joie de vivre,&nbsp;it was essential and symbolic for the&nbsp;Creative&nbsp;Director of Dior&nbsp;women&rsquo;s collections to in turn perpetuate and reinvent, during these&nbsp;unprecedented times,&nbsp;a&nbsp;spirit of freedom and renewal in the name of the creative energy&nbsp;passed&nbsp;down&nbsp;by Monsieur Dior.&nbsp;
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It represents a major&nbsp;feat&nbsp;for&nbsp;Dior&rsquo;s&nbsp;petites mains,&nbsp;who&nbsp;gamely rose to the&nbsp;challenge of&nbsp;executing&nbsp;miniature&nbsp;tailoring, involving&nbsp;an infinitely rigorous&nbsp;and passionate dialogue&nbsp;with a range of precious&nbsp;savoir-faire&nbsp;skills.&nbsp;The&nbsp;spellbinding&nbsp;collection highlights the noble character&nbsp;of the artisanal poetry that sculpted, shaped, embroidered and sublimated these exceptional creations.&nbsp;In creating&nbsp;these thirty-seven&nbsp;captivating&nbsp;silhouettes, Maria Grazia Chiuri wished to celebrate the work and the journeys of five indomitable, magnificently inspiring figures&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Surrealist movement: Lee Miller, Dora Maar, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington and&nbsp;Jacqueline Lamba.&nbsp;Each one a visionary, these audacious&nbsp;personalities transcended their role as&nbsp;&ldquo;muse&rdquo;&nbsp;by affirming their vocations&nbsp;as artists of dazzling talent.

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Get ready to experience the unveiling of the Autumn-Winter 2020-2021 Haute Couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, showcased in an exclusive film directed by Matteo Garrone.

Dior Autumn-Winter 2020-2021 Haute Couture

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