COUTURE SHOW IN TOKYO

Dior presents its Spring- Summer 2017 collection.

by TEAM PARIS SOCIAL DIARY, photography by COURTESY | 19 April, 2017

The Artistic Director of the women’s collections for the house of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, for the first Haute Couture season, was inspire by the image of a labyrinth. She was fascinated by the interpretations to which this archetypal form has given rise over the age. She perceived her adventure into the heart of the Dior world as being akin to entering a labyrinth. Maria Grazia make a relation also with the imagination of Christian Dior, who wrote:
After women, flowers are the most divine of creations. They
are so delicate and charming, but they must be used carefully.
Memory is the driving force shaping a new story that rewrites the House’s lexicon, and traslate it into shapes and cuts that are the imprint of the silhouettes, dreams and desires of today’s women. The lace was remounted on organza, plate tulles in fairy tale hues are layered in compositions that are both ethereal and majestic. It have also an aspect of gothic with a punk edge because of the Stephen Jones hats and masks. Evening dresses in powdery colors evoke the passing of the seasons and of life itself.
Airi Matsui
Emi Suzuki
Hana Matsushima
Hiroomi Tosaka
Kozue Akimoto
Mademoiselle Yulia
Yuka Mizuhara

Embroidered stars stand out against gold-colored tulle, tarot symbols are hand-painted on the white panels of long dresses, are some of the details that Maria Grazia Chiuri use tu embrace the art of divination and transforms to embellish her collections. The white details can be found inside a black coat. The typically masculine evening outfit becomes the defining piece of a contemporary take on femininity. The roomy culottes have satin on the side, the Domino coat an imposing black velvet hood, the Bar jacket is deconstructed and reinvented.
Maria Grazia Chiuri imagined a splendid ball straight out of a fairy tale for the big final.  A liberating and unforgettable ball. For the Tokyo live show, she has designed a number of additional and entirely new creations, in which the tangible spirit of Christian Dior is revisited in a contemporary take.  Also, Maria Grazia Chiuri has drawn her inspiration from a design in which Monsieur Dior, in 1953, expressed his fondness for the Land of the Rising Sun and its traditions: the Jardin japonais dress.