Above: Rachele Regini in
her living-room, wearing
silk shirt, £1,700; leather
trousers, £3,100; brass and
crystal necklace, £1,300;
leather loafers, £830; socks,
£350, all Dior. Bracelet;
rings(worn throughout),
all Rachele’s own
ST Y LE
MY
LIFE,
MY
ST Y LE
By LUCY HALFHEAD
Photographs by JOSH SHINNER
Dior’s Rachele Regini has
adorned her Chelsea home
with colourful artworks and
feminist literature that inspire
her diverse wardrobe
R
achele Regini opens the door
to her first-floor Chelsea apart-
ment, situated on a quiet, leafy
square between the stylish boutiques of the
King’s Road and the upmarket furniture
shops of Brompton Cross. The bright space
i s fi l l e d w i t h t r i b u t e s t o h e r c l o s e - k n i t f a m i l y,
including a series of beautiful black and
white portraits of Regini with her
mother, Dior’s artistic director Maria
Grazia Chiuri, that hang in the hall-
way. ‘We’re spending even more time
together,’ Regini says, referring to her
new role working alongside Chiuri
as an advisor to the Dior creative
studio. ‘My job is to make sure that
all our ideas about gender, cultural
appropriation and the academic side
of what my mother decides to incor-
porate into the collections are
well-researched.’
Regini grew up in Rome, where