Dior Spring Summer 2022

Dior Spring Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear. Review by Eleonora de Gray, Editor-in-Chief of RUNWAY MAGAZINE.

This is a second day of Paris Fashion Week. But it didn’t feel like it started yet. No one officially opened the fashion week, no special speech, no press-releases to the media, not even the posts on social media networks by French Fashion Federation.

So this Dior show actually opened the Paris Fashion Week Spring Summer 2022 season.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE
Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE
Dior Spring Summer 2022 by RUNWAY MAGAZINE

Creative director of Dior Maria Grazia Chiuri made again very dramatic change in the style of Dior fashion house. She abandoned peasant Italian style, she also abandoned style of the tapestries and any other ideas from XVII and XIX centuries, and came back so close to our time. 60s.. wonderful colorful 60s.

This Dior Spring Summer 2022 collection is all about wonderful green, pink and yellows little suits, so well know by Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy. But why not after all to take on the heritage of the house.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE
Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE

Dior Press-release:

The dreamworld of the Dior spring-summer 2022 women’s ready-to-wear collection is nourished by curi­osity, desire, and research. It is structured around a network of associations as Maria Grazia Chiuri explores Marc Bohan’s long tenure as creative director of Dior. More precisely, she highlights the slim look collection, presented in 1961 and described by the fashion press as follows: “it completely changes fashion, just as the new look did in 1947.”

Maria Grazia Chiuri thus revisits the early 1960s, etching out the contours of change and formulating a new lexicon for a world still reeling from the pandemic. Silhouettes also reveal cuts and graphic effects transposed in yellow, green, red, navy, orange, and raspberry, giving Bohan’s aesthetic a color block spin.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE
Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE

These colors also symbolize the spatial geometries at the heart of games dreamed up by artist Anna Paparatti to ques­tion the rules of art and life. Inspired by her singular style, Maria Grazia Chiuri approached her to conceive the show’s scenography in an absurdist spirit reflecting the universe of her various works.

Jackets reinvented with a boxy cut, refined coats, skirts, bermudas, shorts, and dresses are combined in multiple ways in a series of contrasts.

Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE
Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE

A selection of designs produced in 30 embroidery are enhanced by a textured visual effect. Materials such as scuba and nylon reinterpret volumes, revolutionizing the look of the woman who wears them. Silhouettes conceived to shine on the dance floor evoke the legendary roman nightclub, the piper club, a sprawling, colorful venue, and an emblem of freedom.

A laboratory that experimented with the arts and fashion without prejudice, offering a unique sense of creativity like le Palace in Paris. A place where artists mingled with philosophers, muses, and actors, among others, in a completely new and unexpected setting, just like this collection, embodied by Anna Paparatti’s ii Gioco del nonsense (the game of nonsense). Nonsense, as the American poet and literary critic Susan Stewart writes, is “perfect, pure, an untouched surface of meaning whose every gesture is reflexive.”

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Dior Spring Summer 2022 Paris by RUNWAY MAGAZINE

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Posted from Paris, Le Marais, France.