Christian Dior Plows Ahead Toward the Revolution, This Time With Black Leather Berets
A few weeks ago, Maria Grazia Chiuri followed up on her equality-preaching debut at Christian Dior with a feminist fairytale of a couture show, which saw Stephen Jones-designed headpieces and feather crowns gracefully top off models’s ethereal heads. As it turned out, they proved a perfect sign of the times: in the politically tumultuous weeks since, Chiuri and her team wrapped up the house’s Fall 2017 collection which, this weekend at Paris Fashion Week, showed her girls have grown a bit hardened in the short time since. Rather than feathers, models marched down the runway in Jones’s militant-style leather berets—a more somber tone followed through with military trenches and a largely black and navy palette, which transplanted the house’s logo from previous locations like Bella Hadid’s underwear to cross-body straps. That’s not to say things were exactly downcast. Mixed in there, too, were fur coats, corset-waisted gowns, shimmering gold space motifs, sheer dresses, deep velvets, plunging necklines, and even head-to-toe denim, all against the backdrop of a dreamlike fog.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
Backstage at Christian Dior Fall 2017 at Paris Fashion Week, photographed by Landon Nordeman.
