- Title: Mazes and fairytales as Chiuri debuts her Dior haute couture line
- Date: 23rd January 2017
- Summary: ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** CHIURI POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS BACKSTAGE (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR, MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, SAYING: "I started with the atelier to speak about my point of view about couture. I think that we have to maintain this dreaming idea of couture but at the same time I don't want to lose the wearable idea because I think in any case, like it's in my Italian tradition, that couture is a service, it's one of a kind, we have a couture audience, we have couture clients, so it's important to give a dream but a real dream, something for every day." VARIOUS OF CHIURI BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR, MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, SAYING: "(A) labyrinth is a place where you go inside and it's also just a little bit dangerous in some way you feel. But at the same time you believe that it's possible to find a way. I think in some way it represents my new adventure in couture at Dior!" CAMERAMAN FILMING (SOUNDBITE) (French) DIOR CEO, SIDNEY TOLEDANO, SAYING: "That's what haute couture is about. You have a conductor who has to work with talent and who has to push and to inspire. And you can see that in the work. The work had that fluidity, that lightness, which she gives. And she brought the idea of a woman and a woman who understands the women of today, younger women, because she has daughters, she has a daughter, she has the friends of her daughter and so on which means there's that transmission. And I'm so happy for the house because that was exactly the objective we dreamed about." TOLEDANO BEING INTERVIEWED
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- Keywords: Dior haute couture collection show fashion Chiuri Toledano Paris
- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- City: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Fashion
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- Story Text: Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled a fairytale-like debut haute couture collection for French fashion house Christian Dior on Monday (January 23), presenting flowing flowery dresses, capes and plenty of intricate craftsmanship.
Dior's first woman artistic director, who previously spent some 17 years at Valentino, took inspiration from labyrinths for the line on the second day of fashion shows at Paris' Haute Couture spring/summer 2017 week.
Amid a lush garden setting at the French capital's Rodin museum, models opened the show in Dior's signature Bar jackets in black, re-invented into capes with hoods and worn with lace tops, pleated skirts and wide-leg ankle-length culotte trousers.
Chiuri also presented a selection of white dresses before moving onto dream-like frocks in pink, mauve, grey and blue for the evening.
Flower embroidery adorned the tulle and organza dresses, some of them strapless, others with spaghetti straps, as did a variety of tarot symbols and stars. The princess-style gowns came in ruffled layered styles or with lace decorations.
Models wore necklaces with butterflies or flowers. Flowers adorned headdresses for the romantic look.
"I think that we have to maintain this dreaming idea of couture but at the same time I don't want to lose the wearable idea," Chiuri told reporters.
"A labyrinth is a place where you go inside and it's also just a little bit dangerous in some way you feel. But at the same time you believe that it's possible to find a way. I think in some way it represents my new adventure in couture at Dior!"
Dior CEO Sidney Toledano told Reuters that the new recruit understood the woman of today.
"I'm so happy for the house because that was exactly the objective we dreamed about," he said.
At her debut ready-to-wear line for Dior in September, Chiuri showcased an eclectic collection, mixing "sport couture", street style and fairytales, for the brand looking to appeal to young fashionistas.
A selection of luxury labels, including Chanel, Giorgio Armani Prive and Valentino are showing their creations at Paris Haute Couture Week, which runs until Thursday. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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