Skip to content
RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® Official

RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® Official

RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® – International Media, Global Fashion Authority

  • RUNWAY WEB3
  • Runway Stories
  • RUNWAY PODCAST
  • Runway Videos
  • Contact Us
  • Subscribe
2022, Best of, Couture, Couturier, Exclusive Interview, Executive Director, Expertise Mode, Fashion, Fashion Designer, Fashion Designer Milan, Fashion Designer Paris, Fashion Icon, Fashion Show, Fashion Week, Fashion Week 2022, Fashion week Paris, France, Guillaumette Duplaix, Haute Couture, Issue, Issue 2022, Italy, Look, Luxe, Luxury, Milan, News, Official Runway, Official Runway Magazine, Official Runway Magazine France, Official Runway Magazine USA, Paris, Paris Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week 2022, PFW, Pret-a-porter, Ready-to-wear, Real Runway, Real Runway Magazine, Runway, Runway Bag, Runway com, Runway Cover, Runway Europe, Runway France, Runway Global, Runway Go, Runway Live, Runway Look, Runway Magazine, Runway Magazine 2022, Runway Magazine 2022 Issue, Runway Magazine Cover, Runway Magazine Event, Runway Magazine France, Runway Magazine Get Your Digital Subscription, Runway Magazine Get Your Digital Subscription, Runway Magazine Global, Runway Magazine Italy, Runway Magazine Milan, Runway Magazine New York, Runway Magazine News, Runway Magazine Paris, Runway Magazine US, Runway Magazine USA, Runway Magazine Worldwide, Runway Marketing, Runway Milan, Runway Net, Runway News, Runway Paris, Runway Show, Runway US, Runway USA, Spring Summer, Spring-Summer 2022, Story, Style

Color analysis of DIOR Spring Summer 2022

Posted by Guillaumette Duplaix on 8th April 202227th August 2022

Color analysis of DIOR Spring Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear. Expert Article by Guillaumette Duplaix, Color Specialist, Executive Director, Global Editor-at Large at RUNWAY MAGAZINE.

Listen the article in English

Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine
Color Expertise
Color analysis of Dior Spring Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear
Loading
00:00 / 5:43
Share
Link
Embed

Écouter l’article en français

Dior Tendances Couleurs 2022-2023
Dior Tendances Couleurs 2022-2023
00:00/7:00
AmazonRSSRadio PublicSpotify
RSS Feed
Share
Link
Embed

In this article I’m going to explain the color trends chosen by Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of the house, for the DIOR Spring Summer 2022 season.

We are going to try to understand the vision of Maria Grazia Chiuri, and what she is trying to express with her choices of colors, prints and symbols.

The identity of such an iconic house is always a matter of color. Christian Dior has two colors : Trianon GRAY, or Montaigne GRAY, and RED.

Christian Dior DNA Colors
Christian Dior DNA Colors

Maria Grazia Chiuri chose multiple colors, making them rhythmic.

Be careful with the colors! Well chosen they could result the magnificent looks, and random or chaotic choice could be exactly the opposite – the looks could be ugly, even vulgar.

Whether Maria Grazia Chiuri is aware of the color strategy, that’s what we are going to see when we analyze the looks.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

Black & White Dior looks

We are on a heckled symbolism: a deceptively wise and classic style. These black and white looks suggest that they were created for ladies who often go to churches for confession. It is very Italian indeed. It is a medieval vision of the peasant women. Short, very short skirts and dresses symbolize the vision of the “little life” women in search of piety challenges. Italian version of “small minded” puritans.

There is, of course, no relation to Christian Dior codes. To say that it has a “modern look” doesn’t say anything. Puritanism is never modern, and it is always related to the refusal of something different, and even more related to the extermination… execution of any kind of diversity.

The 22 looks out of 87 looks from the DIOR Spring Summer 2022 collection are black and white “puritan” looks.

Black & White looks of Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

Orange Dior looks

Christian Dior loved vibrant and intense fuchsia and red, the color of love. With ORANGE, risk-taking is less. Maria Grazia Chiuri chose this color because she thinks that this is a color adopted by French women for its stimulating but less aggressive aura, and therefore more accessible than RED, and often considered more vulgar.

With the ORANGE we think that it is a careful choice by Maria Grazia Chiuri… We will find out what happens next.

Orange looks of Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

Yellow Dior looks

Maria Grazia Chiuri chose the total look of one color. Although she ignored not just the color codes of Christian Dior, but also the codes in France.


YELLOW is not a favorite color in France, nor in the United States.

History shows us that its use does not have a “good press”.
I invite you to read my article about YELLOW HERE. This is a work tool to inform you about the history and values of YELLOW.

It is important to know what YELLOW represents before creating several pieces of total YELLOW looks.

Yellow looks of Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

Green Dior looks

Big pari of Maria Grazia Chiuri is to propose a complete look in GREEN.
My article on GREEN will give you instructions for using this very, very controversial color. Read it HERE.

GREEN is the color most associated with superstitions. You think these are ancient superstitions? Think again. Moreover GREEN is the most complicated color to reproduce, and it’s unstable.

GREEN is used in symbols of ecology, cleanliness, and sustainable development abundantly. In terms of colors, the choice is complicated.

By offering a GREEN look with short dresses and suits, Maria Grazia Chiuri is winging it, and hoping for the best. Will she win? We’ll see. 

Green looks of Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

“Taste is the enemy of creativity,” – said Pablo Picasso.
Are we in front of a genius of creativity who makes fun of the Christian DIOR style?

Strong, current colors for the following looks. We are far from Christian Dior’s color choices.

According to Maria Grazia Chiuri, she rejuvenates the brand with tangy colors and rhythms, and the sporty looks. A result that is not at all classy.

John Galliano brought his extravagance, his creativity of course while respecting the codes of the DIOR house.

When I see the looks of Maria Grazia Chiuri, I’m in complete confusion. I see an anarchy of colors on boxing training outfits.

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s vision: the woman of tomorrow will dress in boxing clothes with bright colors so that we can see her from afar, and she can start the fight with the individual who will try to annoy her. 

And this is totally opposite to her Black & White puritan looks.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

Once the boxing outfits are over, we see a variation of colorful looks with animal prints that we will find several times.

A message ? Not sure… Safari chic maybe?
I notice a confident rhythm of light blue and pink or red as well as a discreet appearance of orange added to the green.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

Maria Grazia Chiuri offers us white jeans looks with matching pieces from previous looks. Already seen and more interesting by the price at other brands and above all, because the buyer is involved in the customization.

These looks are reminiscent of the customization that “bloom” across all urban brands.

Off-White looks of Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine
Off-White looks of Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

There was a time when Christian Dior took us to cocktail parties, Maria Grazia Chiuri takes us on safari! but where exactly? Or even better – these are “true factory women” looks in “Off-White” mood. Maybe rich and depressed clientele who are thinking of going on an adventure in this outfit?

Safari looks of Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine
Safari looks of Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

Once the safari is over, we prepare for an evening in these shiny fabrics of different colors. We return to the Christian Dior style with a shorter dress.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

And we end this parade with long dresses as if it were necessary… Maria Grazia Chiuri took over the colors on soulless long dresses, off topic.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

At first glance, I was delighted to see the choice of the colors. But when I started to analyze I discovered that in fact these colors hide a great sadness, a boredom… Where is the creativity of the house of DIOR?

These last pieces recall the DNA of the Christian Dior house but worn as if they were peasant women going to a ball. The most beautiful colors can fade when the energy is negative.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 by Runway Magazine

“Style knows who you are, what you mean, and what you don’t care about,” – said Orson Wells. Maria Grazia Chiuri, why would you present these looks under the name of the prestigious Maison DIOR?

Guillaumette Duplaix, Editor-at-Large RUNWAY MAGAZINE.



Posted from Paris, Le Marais, France.
American Fashion MagazineBe FabulousBest Fashion MagazineBest ImageChicChristian DiorColor expertiseCommunicationContemporainCreateurEleganceEleonora de GrayFashionFashion ConsultingFashion Design MagazineFashion MagFashion MagazineFashion Magazine CoverFashion Magazine DesignFashion Magazine onlineFashion MarketingFashion MediaFashion Style WebsiteFashion WeekFashion week by Runway MagazineFashion week InternationalHaute CoutureHigh Fashion MagazineI love Runway MagazineIconic StyleIn style fashionInternationalInternational Fashion MagazineItalianLondon RunwayLondon Runway MagazineLuxury MagazineMagazineMagazine FashionMagazine StyleMagazine Style WebsiteMilan RunwayMilan Runway MagazineNew IssueNew York RunwayNew York Runway MagazineOfficialOfficial Runway Magazine WebsiteParis RunwayParis Runway MagazinePopular Fashion MagazineReady-to-WearRunwayRunway FashionRunway MagRunway MagazineRunway Magazine BagRunway Magazine CEORunway Magazine CoverRunway Magazine Eleonora de GrayRunway Magazine EnglandRunway Magazine FranceRunway Magazine IssueRunway Magazine ItalyRunway Magazine LogoRunway Magazine OfficialRunway Magazine subscriptionRunway Magazine USRunway Magazine USAStyle Magazine

Post navigation

Previous Post RUNWAY MAGAZINE Cover 2022 Story by Herman van Gestel
Next Post Valentino The Narratives to LOVE
  • News
  • About RUNWAY MAGAZINE
  • RUNWAY Milestones 1995-2024 Global Influence
  • Runway Magazine First Metaverse Magazine
  • Runway Magazine Media Rights
  • Press Statement
  • Runway Magazine – Creating Immersive Luxury
  • RUNWAY MAGAZINE services
  • Editor-in-Chief of Runway Magazine
  • Podcast RUNWAY MAGAZINE
  • Runway Magazine Digital issues
  • FAQ
  • Contact Us
  • TERMS OF SERVICES
    • Conditions Générales d’Utilisation
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • Cookie Policy

Runway Magazine Issues

Runway Magazine Cover Hermes Spring Summer 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Giorgio Armani Spring Summer 2024 Milan
Runway Magazine Cover Giorgio Armani Spring Summer 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Fendi Spring Summer 2024 Milan
Runway Magazine Cover Fendi Spring Summer 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Emporio Armani Spring Summer 2024 Milan
Runway April 2024 Cover Anne Hathaway
Runway Magazine Cover Emporio Armani Spring Summer 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Dior Spring Summer 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Fendi 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Chanel Spring Summer 2024 Paris
Runway Magazine Cover Chanel Spring Summer 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Tiffany 2024 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Louis Vuitton 2024 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Ralph Lauren 2024 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Haute Couture Chanel 2024 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Dior 2024 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Chanel Couture 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Chanel Couture 2024 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Chanel 2024 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Dior Couture 2024 2025
Kamala Harris The New Lady Liberty Runway Magazine 2024 cover story
Kamala Harris The New Lady Liberty Runway Magazine cover 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Ralph Lauren 2024
Runway Magazine Cover Armani Prive Spring Summer 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Chanel Spring Summer 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Chanel Spring Summer 2025 2
Runway Magazine Cover Fendi Fall Winter 2025 2026
Runway Magazine Cover Fendi Spring 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Giorgio Armani Fall Winter 2025 2026
Runway Magazine Cover Giorgio Armani Spring Summer 2025
Runway Magazine Cover Ariana Grande Spring Summer 2025 Printed Edition
SUBSCRIBE TO RUNWAY MAGAZINE 4
Loading
Wicked Oscars 2025 – Best Looks
Wicked Oscars 2025 – Best Looks
By Eleonora de Gray
Valentino Spring Summer 2025 Couture
Valentino Spring Summer 2025 Couture
By Eleonora de Gray
Dolce Gabbana Exhibition in Paris – From the Heart to the Hands
Dolce Gabbana Exhibition in Paris – From the Heart to the Hands
By Eleonora de Gray
Devil Wears Prada Musical Gala with Runway Magazine
Devil Wears Prada Musical Gala with Runway Magazine
By RUNWAY MAGAZINE
Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez at The 1001 Seasons of Elie Saab
Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez at The 1001 Seasons of Elie Saab
By Ana Topi
View all stories
  • Runway Magazine 2012 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2013 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2014 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2015 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2016 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2017 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2018 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2019 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2020 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2021 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2022 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2023 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2024 issue
  • Runway Magazine 2025 issue
  • RUNWAY WEB3
  • Runway Stories
  • RUNWAY PODCAST
  • Runway Videos
  • Contact Us
  • Subscribe
  • RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® on Facebook
  • RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® on Pinterest
  • RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® on Instagram
  • RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® on LinkedIn
  • RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® on Youtube
  • RUNWAY MAGAZINE ® on Vimeo

3770003953012_www_RUNWAYMAGAZINES_com GLOBAL LOCATION NUMBER

Proudly powered by RUNWAY | MAGAZINE
Translate »

SUBSCRIBE TO RUNWAY MAGAZINE 4

Wicked Oscars 2025 – Best Looks Valentino Spring Summer 2025 Couture Dolce Gabbana Exhibition in Paris – From the Heart to the Hands Devil Wears Prada Musical Gala with Runway Magazine Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez at The 1001 Seasons of Elie Saab