Dior

Dior’s A/W 2019 show space is tessellated with artist Tomaso Binga’s alphabet of the female form

Notions of womanhood are integral to Maria Grazia Chiuri’s vision for Dior.  For the brand’s S/S 2018 show, Chiuri created a hall of mirrors from 80,000 shards of glass, in a nod to the work of French-American artist and...

Dior A/W 2019 Paris Fashion Week Women’s

Scene setting: For A/W 2019, creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri enlisted the octogenarian Italian artist and writer Bianca Pucciarelli Menna to design Dior’s show set. Menna works under the male pseudonym Tomaso Binga, an alter ego she adopted to highlight...

‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ exhibition opens at the V&A

‘For one thing, I love being in a country where the past lies so vividly around me’ explains Christian Dior in his autobiography, of his affection for England. It was a sentiment born from his first trip to the country...

Silk route: foulard’s complex pattern systems mirror intricate high jewellery design

Dior's conveyer-belt show set makes a move in the right direction

Movement, energy, speed: the fashion industry is renowned for its sense of pace. Since his appointment as menswear artistic director of Dior, Kim Jones has been sending the Parisian brand into the future, combining haute couture techniques, artistic collaborations and...

Easy lover: we’re at ease with the relaxed mood of modern tailoring

Signed, sealed, delivered: the greatest fashion week invitations of the S/S 2019 season

Scene-stealing runway sets from the S/S 2019 menswear shows

Behind the set: Kim Jones’ erects a Kaws-designed effigy of M. Dior for his catwalk debut

From the toile de Jouy pattern fabrics which nodded to the wallpaper which lined M. Dior’s first boutique, to the men’s version of its signature John Galliano-designed Saddle bag, artistic director Kim Jones infused his debut menswear collection for Dior with...

Lanvin at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2019

Mood board: Minimal and sharp, these clothes had a city slickness to them, with no frills or highfalutin proposals on gender. The look was direct and masculine. ‘I wanted to go beyond streetwear, to find a new form of sophistication...

Viktor&Rolf celebrates its 25th anniversary in a new Rotterdam retrospective

‘Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Artists 25 Years’ has opened at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the second destination of the celebratory retrospective of the Dutch fashion house’s silver anniversary. Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, who were both born in 1969, started their professional...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro on the divine design of the MET’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibition

Given its track record for staging fashion spectaculars, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute does not shy away from controversy by any means. Its latest effort, ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’, which examines the influence of Roman...