Dior and its Return to the prêt-à-porter of the Sixties
Dior is betting in its next fall-winter 2025 collection on dressing a modern and empowered woman who is looking to fill her work closet with sophistication and audacity. Will it succeed?
Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of Dior, looks to the sixties to find the purest essence of the maison in order to give shape to a new collection with which she intends to fill the most special evenings of the next autumn-winter season.
Her collection is born as a clear tribute to the forms and materials that existed when the Miss Dior boutique opened its doors for the first time in Paris, constituting a real breakthrough in the way women of that time dressed, after finding in the fashion house a unique opportunity to feel special.
In this way, Dior offers us a collection that puts the spotlight on the Miss Dior line launched by the maison in 1967.
With this label, the Parisian fashion house began to take its first steps outside of haute couture and into prêt-à-porter, at a time when this new way of making fashion available to everyone was viewed with great suspicion by the major Parisian haute couture fashion houses.
And if there was one thing Christian Dior dreamed of, it was to create a fashion with which to dress every woman, regardless of her place of origin, social class, or profession.
And that idea has been maintained since 2016 by the current creative director of the fashion house, who, for the next autumn-winter season, bets on creations that come to highlight the freedom and empowerment of women through prêt-à-porter.
In this collection, Dior invites us to enjoy the perfect fusion of styles by combining pieces such as round-shoulder coats with the iconic dresses and tailored suits of the sixties, but reinterpreted.
A bet in which Chiuri seeks to demonstrate how the past can be an inexhaustible source of inspiration for our present.
The colour palette slides from soft and earthy shades to the intensity of black, skilfully reflected throughout the entire collection, from clothing to footwear.
The proposal exudes an elegance that, although subtle, is nevertheless forceful.
Fabrics such as cashmere or gabardine are translated into short dresses, trousers, coats, jackets, and skirts cut above the knee.
And, in the middle, the Miss Dior logo, which appears as a clear manifesto in shades of blue, red and brown.
The studs, meanwhile, are replaced by beads, and embroideries are imposed with a masterful audacity to create unique, standout pieces.
Dior‘s collection for next season opts for the inclusion of accessories that further highlight the sophistication and audacity of the cosmopolitan woman, a woman who finds in hats and other details her best allies to achieve an exquisite harmony in each outfit.
A collection that undoubtedly exudes elegance, subtlety, exclusivity, and forcefulness.
Can anyone give more?
