Christian Dior
Taking Catherine de Medici as inspiration, who is credited with bringing high heels, the corset and Burano lace to the French court, Maria Grazia Chiuri riffed on the wide-skirt silhouette from that era for Dior SS23. A map from the house archives that centred the city around Ave Montaigne, where Dior’s HQ is situated, was used as a key print on trench coats and corsets. At the centre of the show was a grotto set by French artist Eva Jospin and a performance by dancers and choreographers Marne and Imre Van Opstal and their troupe
