MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI

Images of traditional embroideries and floral paintings adorned the walls of Dior’s celebrity-laden runway homage to Ukraine on the first day of Paris Couture Week

Images of traditional embroideries and floral paintings adorned the walls of Dior’s celebrity-laden runway homage to Ukraine on the first day of Paris Couture Week.

For the first major collection of Paris Fashion Week’s menswear season, Givenchy’s models walked on water.

Maria Grazia Chiuri isn’t flashy, but Dior's first female creative director designs clothes to make a feminist statement.

Giant leather pumpkins squashed on a brown “soil” carpet had fashion editors snapping their cameras at Friday’s installment of Paris Fashion Week.

In his State of the Union address, President Biden spoke about the need to support police departments as well as hold them accountable. "The answer is to fund the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities," he said. Mr. Biden also called on Congress to increase gun regulations. Watch that portion of his remarks here.

Dior’s affirmed feminist designer Maria Grazia Chiuri used the male gaze, as reflected in female oil portraits across the centuries, to make a fashion statement on female empowerment and subjugation.

Dior celebrates the craft of Indian art and embroidery for the fashion house's spring/summer 2022 haute couture collection, presented in Paris, with works of young Indian women being incorporated into the collection.

The atelier — the workshop of hands — took the Dior center stage on Monday to produce a refined show on the first day of Paris couture shows, which aim to elevate the house’s savoir-faire expertise of its seamstresses.

Paris Fashion Week is back after a coronavirus-related hiatus.

Dior has ventured back into the real world after more than a year away, with an in-person show for its fall-winter 2021-22 Haute Couture collection in Paris.

PARIS – Christian Dior on Tuesday was the first major fashion house to stage a traditional ready-to-wear runway show in Paris since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March. The show headlined the first full day of a hybrid-style Paris Fashion Week. Guests were unusually relaxed, with some fashion editors commenting that it was because they had not just flown in, exhausted, from a week of covering Milan. Paris, like Milan, is trying to kick off an unusual fashion season for spring-summer 2021. Coperni put on the first runway show of Paris Fashion Week, atop the Montparnasse Tower skyscraper building.

Models wear creations during the unveiling of the Dior 2021 cruise collection in Lecce, southern Italy, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. It is a decision we took in a very difficult moment, Dior CEO Pietro Beccari said in a phone interview. Chiuri chose Lecce in a nostalgia bid, having spent many summers in the Salento region where her father was born. Besides the cruise show, Dior this month opened a five-story flagship store in Paris, launched a collaboration with Nike and its digital show for menswear. We are a fashion brand, and I think this injection of novelties keeps the interest of many of our clients.