At the Paris Fashion Week, Dior presented its Haute Couture collection for Spring-Summer 2024 against the backdrop of the monumental installation Big Aura by Isabella Ducrot.
The composition featured twenty-three oversized dresses, reaching a height of five meters, inspired by the clothing of Ottoman sultans. The installation is in keeping with the approach of Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of Dior’s womenswear line, to capture the aura of high fashion embedded in the house’s rich history. Paying homage to the French fashion house’s sculptural heritage, a motif that dates back to Christian Dior’s designs in the 1950s, Ducrot’s gowns are deliberately exaggerated in their proportions. Celebrity guests, including Elizabeth Debicki, Rihanna and Natalie Portman, experienced the show’s theme – the sensual tactility of fabric – enhanced by Ducrot’s monumental textile artworks, which adorn the Musée Rodin in Paris.
All photography courtesy of DIOR
