Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri borrows from Dorotea Tanning’s surrealist paintings for her runway show
The new year has its first new muse: “Punk Alice”. At Dior’s haute couture show in Paris, Lewis Carroll’s feisty heroine got a 21st century makeover. Imagine Alice, she of Wonderland fame, but in her Charlie XCX-inspired Brat era and with a wardrobe handmade by the finest seamstresses in Paris. There you start to get the picture.
A snowy white cross-backed lace pinafore dress was worn with a quivering black silk mohican headdress. Alice’s striped stockings were reimagined as lace-up leather gladiator boots. Her frothy skirt became a birdcage crinoline, her girlish ribbons were knotted dog collar-tight at the throat. In the front row, Pamela Anderson smiled beneath a dotted black veil, and Venus Williams was resplendent in tightly coiled braids. A fantastical landscape featuring lions in feather headdresses and plants that sprouted eyes as well as blooms was embroidered all over the walls a stage set in the garden of the Musée Rodin.
Continue reading… Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri borrows from Dorotea Tanning’s surrealist paintings for her runway showThe new year has its first new muse: “Punk Alice”. At Dior’s haute couture show in Paris, Lewis Carroll’s feisty heroine got a 21st century makeover. Imagine Alice, she of Wonderland fame, but in her Charlie XCX-inspired Brat era and with a wardrobe handmade by the finest seamstresses in Paris. There you start to get the picture.A snowy white cross-backed lace pinafore dress was worn with a quivering black silk mohican headdress. Alice’s striped stockings were reimagined as lace-up leather gladiator boots. Her frothy skirt became a birdcage crinoline, her girlish ribbons were knotted dog collar-tight at the throat. In the front row, Pamela Anderson smiled beneath a dotted black veil, and Venus Williams was resplendent in tightly coiled braids. A fantastical landscape featuring lions in feather headdresses and plants that sprouted eyes as well as blooms was embroidered all over the walls a stage set in the garden of the Musée Rodin. Continue reading… Dior, Paris fashion week, Fashion, Fashion weeks, Life and style, Paris, France, Europe, World news
