Dior 2024 Cruise Collection: a tribute to Frida Kahlo by Maria Grazia Chiuri
26 May 2023
Maria Grazia Chiuri chose to held the show on 20/05 on the grounds of Mexico City's Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, where Frida attended school and met her mentor Diego Rivera.
The legendary and self-taught painter Frida Kahlo's work served as the inspiration for the collection. The artist, who was well-known for her masculine-meets-feminine aesthetic, spoke on issues such as gender, identity, and bisexuality, which were ground-breaking for the time she lived in. She also discussed the difficulties of having a body that had been severely damaged by polio at a young age.
Maria Grazia Chiuri on Frida's drawings:"Everybody looks at the iconography of her artwork in a superficial way, but her life is incredible because she explored the relationship between her body and her clothes. She was so conscious of that. Frida talked about disabilities and forging her own identity way back in the 1930s and 1940s"
See images of the show at the link below.
