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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Morwenna Ferrier in Paris

Dior enjoys Oscars glow with show of reinvention at Paris fashion week

Models wearing Dior dresses walk between illuminated ice-like sculptures as an audience looks on
The monumental five-act show featured mechanical pterodactyls, giant boulders, flashing lights and a lot of lace. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters

“In fashion, you can’t invent something new,” said the creative director of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, backstage before her autumn/winter 2025 show. But you can reinvent it.

And so, in the Tuileries garden, Chiuri took an everyday basic – the white shirt – turned it on its head, and placed it front and centre in a monumental five-act show that featured mechanical pterodactyls, giant boulders, flashing lights and a lot of lace.

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