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What does your future hold – Dior’s Haute Couture 2021-2022 was inspired by Tarot

Dior Haute Couture 2021 - 2022

Take a walk into the mystic with Dior Haute Couture 2021-2022.

A collection inspired by the magic and beauty of a deck of tarot cards, it was one that reminded us of the pleasure and inspiration that fashion evokes.

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The pieces in the collection were not presented in just any old showcase. Our experience with the 2021 Haute Couture collection came through the eyes of Italian director Matteo Garrone. A 14 minute film takes us deep inside the world of Dior and the ancient art of reading the tarot.

 

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Let the High Priestess walk you into an imaginary world, one that is past, present and future. A world of puzzles and witchy whimsy, we see the pieces come to life as they were imagined - deep in a realm of abstract possibility.

 

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Creative director of Dior Maria Grazia Chiuri felt a connection to the world of tarot and the visual language that the card use to communicate. The rich symbolic lexicon and fascinating characters of the tarot acted as a source on inspiration, a way to experiment with couture and explore the concept of destiny.

 

Dior Haute Couture 2021 - 2022

 

The Haute Couture collection is a series of extraordinary evening gowns. Featuring abstract contructions, bas-relief openwork bodices and repeated motifs, the pieces communicate the graphic energy felt in when opening a deck of tarot cards. Tweed, cashmere and organza on shirts, skirts, pants and capes all play a part - and interestingly the Bar jacket is reimagined in black velvet.

Christian Dior himself was passionate about the art of divination. As such, the Haute Couture 2021-2022 collection is an ode to soul of the house of Dior and an awakening of possibilities and a prophecy of the future.

Experience the Dior Haute Couture 2021-2022 film by Matteo Garrone below or read on further to see the lookbook imagery. Take a walk into the mystic and let this historic House show you what your future could hold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dior's Haute Couture 2021-2022 show follows on from the legacy last year's Haute Couture 2020-2021 - which was one of the first Dior shows to be lived streamed rather than presented to a live audience.

Haute Couture 2020 was inspired by creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri's fascination with Le théatre de la Mode. A touring exhibition during the post World War II years 1945 and 1946, Le théatre de la Mode sought to bring design and beauty back to the creativity-deprived public in Europe and America. The exhibit comprised of miniature fashion mannequins wearing glitz and gowns, a spectacle of whimsy and rejuvenation for creative minds.

Maria Grazia Chiuri took this sentiment and used it to inspire the Haute Couture 2020-2021 collection. The pieces were designed to evoke the beauty and magic of fashion. As such, this presentation was not just any plain runway show. The collection was presented through a 15 minute film directed by Matteo Garrone. We open onto a few of the talented Dior ateliers, expertly crafting and constructing their fashion pieces. But we are quickly whisked away into a mystical alternate reality - a world of chanted forests, wood nymphs and mermaids.

It was a special and unique view inside the world of Dior, one that helped whisk us away at a time when we needed it most.

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