Dior - Women's SS 2019 RTW

Freedom, for Chiuri, means taking a new approach to Dior’s silhouettes. Gone are the corsets to keep waists and bodices nipped and horsehair to make skirts flare. Gone too the bones and underwires and fabrics so stiff that they seem to stand up and head to the bar by themselves. Instead there is jersey in the collection for the first time, cut and draped and pleated into neat neo-Grecian frocks. A dress of macramé, elegant in khaki, was braided entirely from tulle and was soft yet precise. There are charming floral prints made abstract and artisanal through tie-dye. And on every piece there is the sense of the hand: from butterflies created from feather and bead embroidery to Shiburi scarf prints to the way even the most minimal black tunic is cut and draped.