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Jennifer Lawrence at Paris Fashion Week
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The winter cold remained strong in the City of Light. However, that didn’t stop hundreds of people from attending the Dior Fall Winter 2024 women’s ready-to-wear show on Tuesday in Paris to watch celebrities and the who’s who of fashion enter a huge white building shaped like a box located right in the middle of Tuileries Garden.
When the guests entered the building, the first thing they encountered was bamboo cascading around the room forming a square shape, and also crisscrossing from the ceiling, as well as bamboo figures placed in the middle of the room. The installation was conceived by Indian artist Shakuntala Kulkarni, but conceived by Maria Grazia Chiuri, the house’s creative director of women’s couture and ready-to-wear. Before the lights went down, a fanfare surrounded actors Jennifer Lawrence (in a deep V-neck vest) and Anya Taylor-Joy as they sat together. While Maisie Williams, The crownby Elizabeth Debicki, Monica Barbaro Top Gun: Maverick and Kelly Rutherford looked Dior-chic as they too sat front row. Korean actress and singer Jisoo was also present.
Before the show, the backstage was bustling with hair and makeup activities. Peter Phillips, head of makeup at Dior, explained that his process and inspiration for the beauty looks were generally stress-free.
“Maria Grazia does her research and knows what she wants,” Phillips said. “This collection was a little more blurry because, as with scenery, one thing has nothing to do with the other. So, we talk about something unexpected. When we made the accessories there was a shelf with all the bags, and it was a strange lime green and pink color. I thought we could do something with pink because the collection is beige, gold and monotone with glitter. It was like a calculated mistake to do something with pink, and we just played around. And just like in Indian culture and (married) women wear the (bindi), my thought process was to add that dot in the corner of the eye. “It’s like a rose petal.”
Every aspect of beauty was strategically designed for the models, from skincare to makeup. dior Capture Totale Le Serum was part of the skin care preparation, while the Dior forever skin glow The foundation created an even tone and the Dior Addict Lip Glow Oil 000 Universal Clear provided a simple lip option that highlighted the natural color of a lip.
Models walk the runway during the Christian Dior show as part of Paris Fashion Week.
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As the show began, silhouettes emerged from backstage with “Miss Dior” in large letters added to the side of trench coats and pantsuits, like a kind of signature manifesto. Chiuri’s attention was focused on the late 1960s, when, as the house called it, the era “in which fashion left the workshop to conquer the world” arrived. It was during this time that the Miss Dior women’s clothing line was born in 1967, finally giving way to ready-to-wear, with the idea that fashion could be easily reproduced, under the then creative direction of Marc Bohan and his assistant. Philippe Guibourgé. The Miss Dior boutique, opened in Paris, inspired a new way of dressing, uniting women with different points of fashion through accessories such as the scarf and A-shaped silhouettes that allowed women to move in new ways without restricting themselves. .
It was a time when music, art, fashion and architecture collided. It was also a moment in which Gabriella Crespi, artist and designer, inspired Bohan and, recently, Chiuri, passionate about feminism and women’s independence.
Following Crespi’s example, Chiuri was drawn to the fact that in the late ’60s a generation of women emerged determined to be something through their work.
In the Fall Winter 2024 show, the color palette remained mostly in the typical beige color of the trench coat. But Chiuri also borrowed from Bohan’s range in white, orange, pink and neon green. Using gabardine and double cashmere to tell this sartorial story of the late 60s in the form of coats, jackets, dresses, pants and above-the-knee skirts that are combined with beading and embroidery, is the way that the creative director of say that this season’s women’s clothing continues to conquer the world.
And if you find yourself in Paris soon, visit The Dior Gallery exhibition to see the costumes from the original Apple TV+ series up close The new lookwhich goes back in time to present the life and career of Christian Dior as he established and ran his renowned haute couture house.