MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

POP TAKE COLLECTION

2021.10.01

DIOR SS22
WOMENSWEAR

Maria Grazia Chiuri revisits the early 1960s, and creates a new lexicon for the present times, inviting us to shine. Boxy jackets, color block and cutting-edge minimalism.

For Dior spring-summer 2022 women’s ready-to-wear collection Maria Grazia Chiuri revisits the early 1960s, etching out the contours of change and formulating a new lexicon for a world still reeling from the pandemic. She explores Marc Bohan’s long tenure as Creative Director of Dior focusing on the Slim Look collection, presented in 1961 and described by the fashion press as follows: “It completely changes fashion, just as the New Look did in 1947.”
Chiuri’s knows something about creating a dreamworld nourished by curiosity, desire, and research. A lot of research.
SS22 silhouettes are characterised by boxy cut jackets, refined coats, skirts, Bermudas, shorts, and dresses, combined in multiple contrasts. Colors are key to the collection concept as each piece is transposed in yellow, green, red, navy, orange, and raspberry, giving Bohan’s aesthetic a color block spin. From clothes to scenography, color keeps being central as Maria Grazia Chiuri turns to artist Anna Paparatti to conceive show absurdist spatial geometries. Pop and minimal. This collection reminds us that clothes are made to inhabit the space and invites us to shine and perform ourselves on the stage of our life.

RIVE DROITE

SAINT LAURENT BY
VANESSA BEECROFT

2023.02.15

Saint Laurent invites Vanessa Beecroft to photograph the Spring 23 collection: a selection of 14 polaroids is on display at Rive Droite stores in Paris and Los Angeles. 

COLLECTION

Gucci Après-Ski

2022.12.15

The Maison presents the new Gucci Après-Ski collection, a selection of garments designed for a luxurious and refined high-altitude season told through a retro campaign inspired by the relaxed atmosphere of winter holidays.

JACQUEMUS

"LE RAPHIA"

2022.12.13

Under a relentless rain of raffia, that breaks in like a summer storm, Jacquemus presents its new Spring Summer 2023 collection, titled “Le Raphia”. The natural fiber becomes the undisputed star moving from its raw essence to being extremely luxurious.

CELINE

Age of Indieness

2022.12.12

Age of Indieness spotlights an aesthetic raised from the indie-sleaze era of the 1990s and early 2000s, Celine’s Winter 2023 collection, designed by Hedi Slimane, walk the catwalk at the Wiltern Theatre in the heart of Los Angeles.

Fashion

Chanel
Métiers d’Art

2022.12.09

The Chanel Métiers d’Art 2022/23 collection, presented under the artistic direction of Virginie Viard, parades at the Palais de Justice in Dakar, capital of Senegal. The show is unique in terms of creativity, and a tribute to the savoir-faire of the place.