Last night's Tuileries Garden, the first big show of Paris Fashion Week, Dior Fall/Winter 2023 ready-to-wear collection, was held and participated in the grand event with the global audience through live broadcast.
The show also invited Dior brand ambassador Liu Yuxin to the scene to share the legendary collection and contemporary fashion inspiration dialogue in this grand event.
Internationally renowned actor Zhang Ziyi was also invited to the scene to witness the wonderful collision of popularity and classics presented by this season's series.
Dior's global brand ambassador Kim Ji-so attended the show in a purple satin dress, interpreting the elegance and modern power of contemporary women.
Ahead of the show, Dior unveiled three short films that introduce the season's muse, which hint at the themes of the Fall/Winter 2023 collection: feminine power, breaking the mold, and freedom.
As the "Miss Dior" figure, Catherine Dior has always been the muse of Dior. Fascinated by flowers and nature, she was also a strong and free resistance fighter.
She embodies women's free will and courage, which deeply influenced Dior's subsequent fashion designs and was the inspiration for this season's ready-to-wear collection.
The famous French singers Édith Piaf and Juliette Gréco interpret the essence of Parisian style with their beautiful singing voice.
These two celebrities express their strong emotions and poetic rhythms through songs, and they write feminist chapters with their own ups and downs and legendary life experiences.
Their bravery and freedom, love and beauty deeply attracted and inspired creative director of womenswear Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Maria tells everyone: "Looking back at the history of the brand through the eyes of the women who influenced him (Christian Dior) has always been my inspiration. ”
Collaborating with different female artists each season has also become a standard surprise at every Dior fashion show.
This time, Maria invited Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos to create a large-scale installation art Valkyrie Miss Dior for the show.
Joana pays homage to Catherine Dior's love of floral elements and the brand's archival floral fabrics to create this natural masterpiece of art, using craftsmanship common to women, such as sewing, crocheting and weaving.
This work celebrates women's freedom and creativity in a magnificent form, and the azure carpet quickly brings the show guests into this quiet and mysterious island of time and space, and better feels the moments of reshaping and merging between the inspiration and creativity of the fifties and the present under the feminist narrative.
From the first set of Look, it is not difficult to see that Maria Grazia Chiuri shows this season's feminist keywords in contrasts with different fabrics.
The white shirt and black skirt are one of the most common looks on Maria's runway, but this time the difference is the softness and sheer of the top fabric, which contrasts with the hard to slightly wrinkled fabric of the bottom.
The formula of combining rigidity and softness has been quoted in many outfits this season.
The combination of light and silky fabric and structured fabric shows the coexistence of feminine tenderness and power, and a large number of sheer and bottomless suit shapes also show rebellion and free will from a feminist perspective.
Many skirts and dresses are also designed in a slightly pleated pattern, and you can feel the characteristic movement marks of the fabric with each step forward.
The skirt pleats are no longer neat, and the whole season of clothing gives people a casual and comfortable state, just like the liberation of women's dress thinking when NEW LOOK was born in the fifties of the last century.
As the muse of Dior's Fall/Winter 2023 collection, the spirit of Catherine Dior lives on throughout the season in the form of flowers.
The vitality of this force of nature is also encapsulated in Dior's collection of classic fabrics, which take on a new life in contemporary design.
The abundance of printed fabrics also brings life and hope to this fall/winter collection, and these fuzzy printed corolla dresses show a dynamic beauty in the model's steps, and this classic vintage element also gives the piece an elegant rhythm.
We can also see embroidered flowers on some dresses, which are sporadically superimposed on black fabrics, still maintaining the agility and lively temperament of a girl.
Floral and natural elements are the love of Catherine Dior, a powerful and free woman with a sincere passion for nature, whose spirit and will have nurtured the brand's design to this day, which has become one of Dior's valuable brand assets.
The fifties of the last century, as the era of this season's dialogue, contributed many highlights to this big show. Among them, the check was previewed by womenswear director Maria Grazia Chiuri on Instagram earlier.
Designed by Christian Dior and born in 1948, The Aventure is one of Dior's legendary collections, and this check will once again evoke this bespoke elegance.
This season, Maria has made the houndstooth suit more practical and innovative.
Check elements are given to stiff but comfortable fabrics, which appear more casual, no longer limited to capes and coats, skirts and jackets have become houndstooth items.
Maria transforms the once classic and dignified into a more casual existence in the modern design language, and also gives this element a more casual charm of modern wear, realizing the collision of classic and innovative, reflecting the creativity and courage brought by several muses.
In addition to the houndstooth check, checks are also used in different colors on coats, skirts, suits or down jackets, and the classic check elements also bring more texture to this autumn/winter collection.
With her unique design perspective, Maria makes this classic element no longer dull, but a fluid realism, providing the audience with more choices for everyday wear.
Maria Grazia Chiuri has given Dior's fall/winter ready-to-wear collection the color of gemstones, and we can see the visual tension they are given to different fabrics.
A check of ruby red colours changes on the coat brings life to the crispy coat, while the more jumpy fluorescent red on the corolla skirt illuminates the look.
The prints of the same color style bloom brightly on the dress, swaying the romantic atmosphere of falling flowers. Or in the form of a dark flash, swinging a starry sky.
Topa yellow is cleverly spread on the dress, just like the color of topaz in different light is projected on the skirt, and the light and shadow flow between the marches, step by step. This colour element works perfectly even with a leather jacket with lapels.
We can feel the charm of blue on denim, and it is not difficult to find Maria's mastery of this tone and denim in previous seasons, paired with the tonal embroidered Book Tote handbag, which achieves a wonderful unity of elegance and casualness.
And blue can also be gentle, used on mohair knitted sweaters, and deliberately blurred checks create a transparent illusion of beauty.
The gradient design makes the emerald more eye-catching, just like the mystery of this show, Maria excessively combines emerald and brown with shoes and handbags in the same color to interpret the unique charm of changing colors.
The different shapes of black dresses in Dior's Fall/Winter 2023 ready-to-wear collection satisfy all our fantasies of elegance.
Structured fabrics throughout the season are designed into elegant dresses, tube skirts that frame your waist or swaying flower crown dresses.
They can be a stand-alone piece or layered with coats and jackets for a new look, giving the wearer a lot of freedom to match.
Towards the end of the show, models wearing flower crowns appeared in small black dresses of different styles, whether embellished with shiny embroidery and beads, kneaded for a more casual look, or paired with beaded jackets and T-shirts, neutral, rock and uninhibited.
Maria used this to compose the freedom and variety of women's dress, which brings the season to a complete end.
In the end, the show closed with Édith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien", Maria Grazia Chiuri used the legendary experience and personal charm of these women to dialogue with the brand's will to change in the fifties, bringing a show full of transformative power to the present.
This freedom and courage that flows freely is made into Dior's fall/winter 2023 ready-to-wear, and the feminine attitude of loyalty to herself is written in clothing.
Edited by Tristan
Design: Xiao B