DIOR RTW FALL WINTER 2022

Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri tunes into the future.

Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 group shot

Situated on the cusp of Dior’s history, on the continual pulse of fashion, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s collections are suspended between the present and the future, beating to the rhythm of simultaneity, synchronicity, in tune with the times.

The Next Era* is the title of the work Mariella Bettineschi imagined for the Dior ready-to-wear fall-winter 2022-2023 show, wherein the Italian artist proposes a gallery of paintings composed of large-scale portraits of women from the history of painting from the 16th to the 19th century. Their cut up, stacked eyes question the judgment that has conditioned – and still conditions – women past and present. The gaze is reversed to suggest another reading of art history. This “framework” of the fashion show breathes life into Maria Grazia Chiuri’s concepts; notably (re)constructing a performative relationship between the body and the garment in a technical, aesthetic perspective, in a succession of operations associating forms, savoir-faire, materials and futuristic technologies.

Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri

The inside of Monsieur Dior’s garments reveals an extraordinary construction system. The Bar jacket, revisited by the Creative Director for this collection, transforms the structure of the original model into a system that regulates the body’s humidity and warms it up if necessary, thanks to innovative techniques developed in the D-Air lab** laboratories, while a bodysuit – crisscrossed by what appears to be an organic network of coloured veins and arteries in luminescent colours – maintains a constant temperature.

Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 in Paris Fashion Week

The Next Era is also a temporal short-circuit where the iconic Roger Vivier for Dior pump is re-appropriated through the possibilities of embroidery, an example of exceptional craftsmanship enhanced by a technical fabric yoke around the ankle. Pieces that can be worn alone or in combination – such as belts with multiple pockets, or the adjustable laced corset – complete many outfits. Designed to be infinitely versatile, these pieces celebrate a new sartorial order where even the iconic Lady Dior sees itself transformed to accommodate everyday essentials.

Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 long skirts

The skirts are also reinvented, thanks to fabrics borrowed from the men’s wardrobe – such as grisaille – and are transformed according to the angle from which they are viewed to offer long, short, and pleated cuts. A hybrid collection that opens up unsuspected creativity through the use of embroidery, which adorns technical knitwear, waterproof materials, Nylon and cashmere.

This collection seeks to express the complexity of fashion that revisits heritage in order to conceive the lines of tomorrow. A journey that shapes the artifacts of a new world, another world, to be made and invented.

Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 monochrome long dresses

Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 White Dresses

Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 White Long Dress

*The Next Era, art installation by Mariella Bettineschi.
**D-Air lab is an Italian start-up founded in 2015 by Lino Dainese. Architect Silvia Dainese Gris is leading this special project for Dior.

THE SET

The set for Dior RTW Fall Winter 2022 show in Paris

Outside photo Adrien Dirand for Dior, Indoor photo Kristen Pelou for Dior

THE STARS IN DIOR

ANYA Taylor Joy, Ashely Park and Chiara Ferragni at Dior Show

Top: Anya Taylor Joy, bottom left to righ: Ashley Park & Chiara Ferragni

Maria Sharapova and Elle Mcpherson at Dior show in Paris

Top: Maria Sharapova, bottom: Elle Macpherson

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