Dior returns to the 1950s with the opening of Paris Fashion Week
The 1950s were way cooler than you think. That was the message as Paris fashion week opened with a Dior show that reversed the retrograde image of that decade. Instead of pastel sweaters and milkshakes, it was the aesthetic of Juliette Gréco and the café society of the Rive Gauche in Paris (left bank) - strong black coffee and little dresses matching black.
< p class="dcr-1b64dqh">Designer, Maria Grazia Chiuri, set out to reclaim the 1950s for France, as they were monopolized in popular memory by the United States , she said backstage at the show. "I realized that, like many foreigners, much of my image of France was formed by Paris as seen through an American lens," she said, referring to the images. romantic images by photographer Richard Avedon, as well as Hollywood films.In search of French women's history of the 1950s, Chiuri chose Catherine as muses for the season Dior, Gréco, and Édith Piaf, who “lived very different lives, but shared a sense of rebellion – and who loved wearing black.” Catherine Dior, sister of the house's founder, Christian, was a member of the French resistance, which collected information on the movements of German troops and warships under the code name "Caro". Arrested by the Gestapo, she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp before escaping in 1945, then received the French Legion of Honor. Her emaciated form and traumatized personality were a key catalyst for her brother, whose post-war New Look figure was partly an attempt to bring hope and optimism to women like her sister, who had suffered during the war.
The show opens with a model wearing a lovely unbuttoned white shirt, with a simple black pencil skirt, a nod to the spirit image of Greco, a Dior client of the 1950s. A very feminine black handbag dangled from an opera-gloved hand. Piaf, whose many accomplishments included breaking up the United States a decade before the Beatles while singing in France, was also here in spirit, in a black beret and a Je Ne Regrette" slogan t-shirt. Nothing, worn with swipes of kohl eyeliner and mismatched earrings. The collection was a moody, darkly chic vision of the 1950s, in which the storm clouds of the next decade can be seen gathering on the horizon.
The 1950s were way cooler than you think. That was the message as Paris fashion week opened with a Dior show that reversed the retrograde image of that decade. Instead of pastel sweaters and milkshakes, it was the aesthetic of Juliette Gréco and the café society of the Rive Gauche in Paris (left bank) - strong black coffee and little dresses matching black.
< p class="dcr-1b64dqh">Designer, Maria Grazia Chiuri, set out to reclaim the 1950s for France, as they were monopolized in popular memory by the United States , she said backstage at the show. "I realized that, like many foreigners, much of my image of France was formed by Paris as seen through an American lens," she said, referring to the images. romantic images by photographer Richard Avedon, as well as Hollywood films.In search of French women's history of the 1950s, Chiuri chose Catherine as muses for the season Dior, Gréco, and Édith Piaf, who “lived very different lives, but shared a sense of rebellion – and who loved wearing black.” Catherine Dior, sister of the house's founder, Christian, was a member of the French resistance, which collected information on the movements of German troops and warships under the code name "Caro". Arrested by the Gestapo, she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp before escaping in 1945, then received the French Legion of Honor. Her emaciated form and traumatized personality were a key catalyst for her brother, whose post-war New Look figure was partly an attempt to bring hope and optimism to women like her sister, who had suffered during the war.
The show opens with a model wearing a lovely unbuttoned white shirt, with a simple black pencil skirt, a nod to the spirit image of Greco, a Dior client of the 1950s. A very feminine black handbag dangled from an opera-gloved hand. Piaf, whose many accomplishments included breaking up the United States a decade before the Beatles while singing in France, was also here in spirit, in a black beret and a Je Ne Regrette" slogan t-shirt. Nothing, worn with swipes of kohl eyeliner and mismatched earrings. The collection was a moody, darkly chic vision of the 1950s, in which the storm clouds of the next decade can be seen gathering on the horizon.
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