For the spring-summer 2021 ready-to-wear show, Maria Grazia Chiuri continues her committed reflection on the origins of fashion, the meaning of cut and creation as artistic languages in perpetual motion. Inspired by the work of Lucia Marcucci – an emblematic figure of the Italian avant-garde who designed the show’s scenography – she chose the aesthetics of collage and visual poetry as a new space for expression. Patchworks of paisley and floral scarves, punctuated by fragments of lace, adorn a series of dresses and pants, exalting the infinite possibilities of the imagination. Fascinated by the power of thought embodied by authors such as Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag, the Artistic Director of Dior’s women’s collections revisits the essence of clothing, from men’s shirts to streamlined coats, celebrating the savoir-faire of world cultures from Japan to Indonesia. A striking and magnetic choral work, transcended by the female voices of the Sequenza 9.3 ensemble – directed by Catherine Simonpietri – (re)interpreting Sangu di rosa, by Lucia Ronchetti, and traditional voceri, as an ode to beauty in all its plurality. The ultimate surprise in this collective odyssey, filmmaker Alina Marazzi signs a unique visual creation, somewhere between reality and fiction, paying tribute to Lucia Marcucci, from text to textile, from voice to image.
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