PWF AW17: Dior

Jessica Quillin
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
EMPOWERMENT is a word that evokes images of suffragettes in white or, more recently, hundreds of thousands of people marching in protest. In the hands of Maria Grazia Chiuri in her latest ready-to-wear collecti...
PFW SS17 Dior

PFW SS17: Dior

Livia Feltham
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
IT WAS Dior Couture’s Chief Executive Sidney Toledano who hinted back in July soon after Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Creative Director of the brand that the world should “expect a new Dior”. After receivi...

PFW AW16: Christian Dior

Sara Hesikova
Fashion, Fashion Shows
DIOR delivered a collection with an attitude. AW16 is going to be elegant but with an edge as lenses of wide sunglasses were covered in leopard print, ears covered in cold ear cuffs and earrings and middle-part...

Raf Simons leaves Dior

Livia Feltham
Fashion, News
Raf Simons has stepped down as creative director of Dior. With the recent SS16 collection being his last during his three and a half years at the maison, Simons, 47, decision not to renew his contract comes as ...

Paris Menswear SS16: Dior

Livia Feltham
News
Dior kept it very cool and collected for SS16, with menswear creative director Kris Van Assche drawing on Dior’s age old ability to refresh and refine luxury. This was centred precisely around a very modest exe...

Haute Couture Spring 2015: Christian Dior

Xenia Founta
News
Christian Dior haute couture SS15 show was a retro-themed collection reinventing the past through Simon’s futuristic lens. The first looks, dresses encrusted with paillettes topped with plastic opera coats a...

The gift of a fashion fairytale

Livia Feltham
News
A new coffee table publication that charts the evolution of a designer like Christian Dior is never unnecessary which makes it all the more delightful to report that Dior have now announced the launch of Monsie...

PFW SS15: Dior

Nicola Kavanagh
News
If you’re ever running late to a Dior show and are not sure where to go, just look for the enormous crowd clogging up Rue de Rivoli and listen for the angry horns of drivers who can’t move for all the high-heel...

Dior Cruise Collection 2015 unveiled

Livia Feltham
News
Dior’s 2015 cruise cohort modelled a 66-piece collection earlier this week, and in what seemed to come and go in a New York minute. But time flies when you’re having fun, and Dior delivered, commencing the sens...

Dior in China

Nicola Kavanagh
News
There are few names which conjure up the magic and artistry of couture quite like Christian Dior. So it was only fitting that walking into the maison’s new exhibition in Shanghai, which has completely taken...

Couture in China

Nicola Kavanagh
Feature
Haute couture, French for “high sewing” has long been synonymous with the very finest form of skill and craftsmanship. While the wider influence of prêt-à-porter often trickles down the fashion chain, haute...

The artist

Nicola Kavanagh
Archive, Culture, Feature
Audrey Tautou is one of those rare birds. She is simultaneously one of the most famous actresses of her generation (Amélie is the highest grossing French movie of all time and even managed to break America ...