PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEVIN TACHMAN; SONNY VANDEVELDE.CHRISTIAN DIOR
On a chequerboard runway,
Maria Grazia Chiuri drifted
away from the stirring feminist
slogans of past collections into
a black-and-white dream world.
Gowns with hypnotic stripes,
caged bustiers and extravagant
feathered capes were inspired
by the surrealist artists Christian
Dior befriended in the 1930s,
creating a fantasy from which
no-one stirred.