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AUGUST 2022

CELEBRATING FEMALE/QUEER ART WITH RINA SAWAYAMA

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DIOR MAGAZINE

ISSUE #777 / AUGUST 2022 CELEBRATING ART WITH RINA SAWAYAMA

CONTENTS Rina Sawayama ............................... Page 3 Collaboration .................................. Page 7

Pop Up Stores ................................. Page 9

Maria Grazia Chiuri ........................ Page 14

Female/Queer Artists .................... Page 15

Divine Feminine ............................ Page 18

Christian Dior ................................ Page 19

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RINA SAWAYAMA

Rina

Sawayama,

Japanese-British singersongwriter, model, and soon to be actor, (making her acting debut as a lead role in John Wick 4, currently in production) has been making waves in her career these last two years. The deluxe version of her debut album Sawayama was just a cherry on top of a fantastic project, with a remix of just one of her poignant songs featuring the Elton John himself! Rina Sawayama’s hyperpop, 2000’s RnB, Jpop, nu metal, digital, avant-pop combo is the most up-beat and funky way to talk about identity, generational trauma and pansexuality.

A big achievement for Rina was her successful campaign to have the rules changed involving what makes someone eligible for a BRIT Award and Mercury Prize, meaning that even without British citizenship someone can qualify for a nomination. Her identity is built up of striving for inclusivity, representation and open and honest living. Rina Sawayama aligns perfectly with Dior’s values and their visions with denim. She is an active, creative woman who is cool and casual whilst still being elegant and classy.

With many brand collaborations under

her belt it’s time Rina made her very own products to share with her fans. Her latest project, a capsule collection with Dior is available now! Available are hand painted culottes by Rina herself, a phone case and buttons. Taking inspiration from tarot, a Dior staple, The Empress tarot card is what Rina chose to represent what she stands for in her career. Divine feminine power, creation, abundance, opportunity and art.

#NEW Micro Lady Dior Bag AU$4,800 #NEW Dior Magic 8-Ball AU$160

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#NEW Dior X Rina Phone Case AU$1,150 #NEW Dior X Rina Pack of 5 Buttons AU$280 #NEW Dior X Rina Hand Painted Culottes AU$5,400

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DIOR POP UP STORES

Our pop up stores in Tokyo, London and Sydney are open now! For the list of other store locations opening worldwide this month check our website at Dior.com.

Grab products from the capsule collection and from Dior’s latest releases in store at these selected locations and online. There is limited supply of Dior X Rina stock, get in quick!

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Thanks from Rina Sawayama and our team here at Dior xx

MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI

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Maria Grazia Chiuri is an Italian fashion

designer starting her career at Fendi in 1989 where she helped design the Baguette Bag. From 1999 she joined Valentino where she worked in accessories until she was promoted to Co-creative director after the former had retired in 2008. In 2016 MGC moved on over to Dior where she was given the role of creative director.

As the first female creative director of Dior, a fashion house which stands for femininity since it’s creation, she was going to make some changes to the brands legacy to focus on a female’s interpretation. Her first collection focused a lot on themes of feminism and as one of her first ventures at Dior she made a point of hiring other women to help all her visions come to life. MGC’s collections since have all represented comfort and strength to suit any and every woman, styling the looks with the MGC signature of flats and combat boots and the occasional kitten heel.

Since Maria Grazia Chiuri’s intorduction to Dior, she has made an effort to

include more takes on magics link to femininity feminism from women. This includes collaborating and taking inspiration from many great female artists. Some of these collections are: Resort 2022 - This collection was inspired by Ancient Greece, 3 of the garments depicting the Goddesses Athena, Leda and Arachne. Spring 2021 Couture - This collection is made up of interpretations of tarot cards including the high priestess, temperance, justice, and death. Spring 2018 RTW - The show for this collection had the set decorated with Niki De Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden sculptures of exaggerated, colorful, mythical female figures. Her art inspired the symbols on several of the designs featured. Resort 2018 - This collection had inspiration from a Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition MGC saw and a collaboration with Vicki Noble, the creator of the Motherpeace feminist tarot deck.

FEMALE/QUEER ARTISTS Maria Grazia Chiuri’s vision for the future of Dior holds a special place for female and queer artists. Many more collaborations and inspired collections can be expected from Dior with the help of the incredibly talented artists from all over the world. Thanks to social media this will be easier than ever and allow for some real talent to be discovered and shared with the world.

Brittany Asch (@brrch_floral)

Hilma Af Klint

Minna Gilligan (@minnagillligan)

Leonora Carrington

Niki De Saint Phalle Pamela Coleman Smith

Tracy Thomason (@tracyhelenathomason)

Kate Bush (@katebushmusic)

Rina Sawayama

(@inasonline)

Judy Chicago (@judy.chicago)

Maud (@thedaintyfunk) Naudline Pierre (@cluvie)

Polina Osipova (@polinatammi) FKA Twigs (@fkatwigs) Georgiana Houghton

Emma Kunz

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DIVINE FEMININE

Monsieur Dior would never begin to work on a couture collection without first consulting with his fortune teller Madame Delahaye. Even the start of House Dior can be attributed to a higher power, his lucky star that he tripped over in 1946, a sign to follow on to his destiny. Symbols of magic and luck are present as Dior motifs to this day seen as things of good fortune to share with the women he dressed.

Maria Grazia Chiuri has

collaborated with and taken inspiration from several female artists with divine influence such as Niki De Saint Phalle, Karen Vogel and Vicki Nobel, Georgia O’Keefe and more for many collections throughout her time as creative director at Dior. We have collected a list of female and queer artists to look into if you are inspired by the work of MGC and her collaborations.

Pamela Coleman Smith is the woman behind the tarot deck that is seen most frequently nowa-days, seen in movies and shows and in most stores to purchase. The tarot has been recreated in different decks by plenty of artists over the years but one of the most magical interpretations is by Leonora Carrington. Her work is haunting and other worldly, perfectly capturing divine powers of the tarot in her art.

Artists like Hilma Af Klint, Georgiana Houghton, Emma Kunz and Judy Chicago all in there lives have explored the power of femininity, some being very spiritual and being healers they portray through their art ideas of the divine feminine and everything that it represents. Femininity typically represents birth and creation, abundance, earth and nature, opportunity and motherhood.

Symbols seen in the tarot

and the lucky charms of Dior’s legacy are spliced with imagery of Rina Sawayama’s artistic presence are spliced together in the collaboration combining otherworldly female powers with an incredibly talented and powerful woman. These products for Dior X Rina perfectly capture the fundamentals of Dior and Rina Sawayama’s playful and vibrant personality.

CHRISTIAN DIOR

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Christian Dior was a French

designer born into a wealthy family, always taking on creative ventures throughout his youth. In 1938 he became an assistant designer to Robert Piguet, four years later moving on to join the house of designer Lucien Lelong. Dior went on to start his own fashion house, backed by Marcel Boussac, a French entrepreneur.

From Dior’s first show the Bar Jacket was also debuted, quickly becoming a brand classic along with the New Look. It features the shape of the New Look and is still reimagined in collections to this today. There seems to be an iteration of the Bar Jacket in every collection since the fashion house’s creation. Both of these designs are so important to the brand as it stands for exactly what Dior himself stands for, femininity, the female form and luxury for women.

“A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.” - Christian Dior (1905-1957) In 1947, at his very first

show, Dior introduced the revolutionary New Look. The design sparked controversy as it was such a drastically different silhouette from what was seen at the time and due to the gratuitous amount of fabric used for each piece. It featured small shoulders, a cinched waist with a voluminous skirt which completely diverts from the former style of padded shoulders and short skirts of World War II times. The New Look was named by Harper’s Bazaar and it completely redefined fashion creating an impact to this day, used by many brands, it is a classic, flattering silhouette on most bodies.

After Christian Dior’s untimely death, Yves Saint Laurent was made his successor, followed by Marc Bohan after he was drafted to war. Then Gianfranco Ferré took on the role, then John Galliano. Raf Simons after that until he abruptly quit and for a short amount of time the understudies Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux were leading. Finally the current creative director was named, Maria Grazia Chiuri.