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LeMonde
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
In Rome, Maria Grazia Chiuri's final bow
She punctuated her 2026 cruise collection with 31 haute couture looks, out of a total of 80 outfits. In doing so, she combined luxury ready-to-wear – marketed as "affordable" and expected to sell like hotcakes worldwide – with the most demanding and elitist craftsmanship that fashion has to offer. In another context, that might have been considered sacrilege. But on the evening of May 27, in the gardens of the Villa Albani Torlonia, Maria Grazia Chiuri was simply bidding farewell (made official two days later) to Dior, where she had overseen the women's collections for nine years, producing eight collections each year. After months of persistent rumors about her departure, and as the fashion industry has experienced an unprecedented shuffle among major luxury houses this past year, this singular runway show, exceptional in more ways than one, became the final piece in a long series of clues. When Dior announced on November 26, 2024, that its next cruise collection would be unveiled in Rome, the urban legend – "The day she leaves, Maria Grazia will show in her hometown" – made a vigorous comeback. On January 31, Dior Men announced the departure of its creative director, Kim Jones, leaving the position vacant. In February, at the start of Paris Fashion Week for womenswear, the Dior show, conceived in collaboration with stage director Bob Wilson, left guests with a strange impression: The scenes, tinged with an end-of-the-world mood, had a retrospective quality, blending the house's iconic moments and evoking a dialogue between the past (with nods to Dior under Gianfranco Ferré and John Galliano) and the present – seeming to turn a page and make way for a new chapter. Many observers saw this as "Maria Grazia's last ready-to-wear collection." The same strange feeling was felt in Kyoto during the Pre-Fall show on April 15, likely due to the announcement, a month earlier, of Jonathan Anderson's departure from Loewe (LVMH), with "those in the know" already sensing he was headed to Dior. That intuition was confirmed on April 17, two days after Kyoto, by a press release announcing his appointment as artistic director of Dior's menswear collections.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rosamund Pike, Natalie Portman Among Guests of Dior Cruise 2026 Show
ROME — Guests of the Dior 2026 cruise show made it through the step and repeat and the entrance of Villa Albani Torlonia just before it started raining on Tuesday evening, ominous black clouds in the background. Abiding by the dress code — white for women and black for men — Natalie Portman made her way toward the 18th-century residence, whose spectacular gardens served as the stage for the fashion show. More from WWD Maria Grazia Chiuri on Her Restored Theater and Rome's Special Locations Italian Fashion Associations Sign Protocol to Combat Worker Exploitation in Supply Chain Together Group Acquires 'Experiential' Agency Obo Asked about her work as an audiobook narrator, for example on the 'Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan, Rosamund Pike said smiling that 'it's a gift because you are alone, just with your imagination, which is a wonderful place to be and you create everything. If you do an audiobook you have to do it so that the person you are reading to has to picture everything, so you have to know it deeply and imagine it first so that you can share your imagination with others.' Spotted earlier in the day at the Teatro della Cometa, which Maria Grazia Chiuri has been restoring, Pike, who is a Dior brand ambassador, lit up and said 'it's a wonderful, very special project. Theaters are places of dreams and creativity and for Maria Grazia to see this one and restore it to its glory, hoping to bring all kinds of artists, productions and music, it's very, very exciting. That would be my dream.' The theater was on her mind because she said she loves a dress code as 'it makes everybody feel special, there is a sense of belonging and togetherness, you are part of a production, I suppose. It's like being part of a theatrical company, you are required to play a part.' 'I love a dress code, I get overwhelmed with choices,' concurred Alexandra Daddario. 'I'm an actress, I've learned fashion but that was not my expertise. So for me it's wonderful to have someone as talented as Maria Grazia and Dior choose something for me.' From the first to the latest 'White Lotus' seasons, Daddario and Sarah Catherine Hook commented on the series' enduring success. Daddario did not envision how influential it would become. 'I didn't think much about it because we shot it during COVID, so we had other things on our minds but I've been doing this for a really long time and you just never know what's going to happen, so it's awesome. Sometimes you think something's going to be huge and it's not, but I knew we were making something special.' Hook said she was 'a fan of it right from the beginning as a viewer and it made so much sense to me. After the success of the first and second seasons and going into the third we all felt this type of pressure and we hoped and wanted the success to continue, but honestly it's all Mike [White, its creator and director], if it's in his hands, we are good. I feel very enriched by the whole experience and the location was stunning. I love Thailand and Asia.' She gave a thumbs-up to the night's dress code, too. 'Oh my gosh, I love it, I didn't know we were going to do all white and being here and seeing it, I think it's elegant and perfect for a garden show. It's kind of like a dream look, and I feel like a vintage princess,' she said, smiling. 'It's timeless color, very much like Dior, and I think there's a lot of ways and times that you can wear it, it's fresh and I think it's fabulous,' said Ashley Park. Launch Gallery: Celebrities Front Row at Dior Cruise 2026 Ready-to-Wear Show Photos Best of WWD Bottega Veneta Through the Years Chanel's Ambassadors Over The Years Ranking Fashion's Longest-serving Creative Directors
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rosamund Pike, Natalie Portman Among Guests of Dior Cruise 2026 Show
ROME — Guests of the Dior 2026 cruise show made it through the step and repeat and the entrance of Villa Albani Torlonia just before it started raining on Tuesday evening, ominous black clouds in the background. Abiding by the dress code — white for women and black for men — Natalie Portman made her way toward the 18th-century residence, whose spectacular gardens served as the stage for the fashion show. More from WWD Maria Grazia Chiuri on Her Restored Theater and Rome's Special Locations Italian Fashion Associations Sign Protocol to Combat Worker Exploitation in Supply Chain Together Group Acquires 'Experiential' Agency Obo Asked about her work as an audiobook narrator, for example on the 'Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan, Rosamund Pike said smiling that 'it's a gift because you are alone, just with your imagination, which is a wonderful place to be and you create everything. If you do an audiobook you have to do it so that the person you are reading to has to picture everything, so you have to know it deeply and imagine it first so that you can share your imagination with others.' Spotted earlier in the day at the Teatro della Cometa, which Maria Grazia Chiuri has been restoring, Pike, who is a Dior brand ambassador, lit up and said 'it's a wonderful, very special project. Theaters are places of dreams and creativity and for Maria Grazia to see this one and restore it to its glory, hoping to bring all kinds of artists, productions and music, it's very, very exciting. That would be my dream.' The theater was on her mind because she said she loves a dress code as 'it makes everybody feel special, there is a sense of belonging and togetherness, you are part of a production, I suppose. It's like being part of a theatrical company, you are required to play a part.' 'I love a dress code, I get overwhelmed with choices,' concurred Alexandra Daddario. 'I'm an actress, I've learned fashion but that was not my expertise. So for me it's wonderful to have someone as talented as Maria Grazia and Dior choose something for me.' From the first to the latest 'White Lotus' seasons, Daddario and Sarah Catherine Hook commented on the series' enduring success. Daddario did not envision how influential it would become. 'I didn't think much about it because we shot it during COVID, so we had other things on our minds but I've been doing this for a really long time and you just never know what's going to happen, so it's awesome. Sometimes you think something's going to be huge and it's not, but I knew we were making something special.' Hook said she was 'a fan of it right from the beginning as a viewer and it made so much sense to me. After the success of the first and second seasons and going into the third we all felt this type of pressure and we hoped and wanted the success to continue, but honestly it's all Mike [White, its creator and director], if it's in his hands, we are good. I feel very enriched by the whole experience and the location was stunning. I love Thailand and Asia.' She gave a thumbs-up to the night's dress code, too. 'Oh my gosh, I love it, I didn't know we were going to do all white and being here and seeing it, I think it's elegant and perfect for a garden show. It's kind of like a dream look, and I feel like a vintage princess,' she said, smiling. 'It's timeless color, very much like Dior, and I think there's a lot of ways and times that you can wear it, it's fresh and I think it's fabulous,' said Ashley Park. Launch Gallery: Celebrities Front Row at Dior Cruise 2026 Ready-to-Wear Show Photos Best of WWD Bottega Veneta Through the Years Chanel's Ambassadors Over The Years Ranking Fashion's Longest-serving Creative Directors
