Dior Magazine's 7 Spanish Creatives Visualizing Cruise 2022.23 Collection AOC Fashion

Women’s Status in 2023

There is no stronger voice for women’s rights in fashion culture than Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri. Her leadership and creative vision increases in value at a time when women’s rights are under assault worldwide, including in America.

‘Woman’ Selected as Word of the Year by Dictionary.com

There’s a reason why the word ‘woman’ was the most-searched word on dictionary.com in 2022. Clearly, we don’t know who women are any more. Can you imagine a search for the word ‘men’?

After major study of what is going on, AOC came to understand that the squeeze wasn’t only from the right, but also the left. I’m well-versed on the reality that vagina is now a verboten word among the uber-progressives in the LGBTQIA+ community.

There’s irony in this lack of word harmony on the left, given the vagina’s identity as a natural birth canal and not only a sperm receptable or pleasure center. Personally, I think vaginas deserve some respect.

But ‘woman’ is now verboten, too? All we need is men? And if Mother Earth didn’t give a vagina to men — or biological women identifying as men — then banish the word? That’s quite authoritarian, if you consider the edict. Then again, vaginas have been bossed around for several thousand years.

Thankfully, one person who isn’t caught in this word-salad eggbeater is Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri.

Carrying on with its 21st century Medici mission, after the Cruise 2022.23 show in Seville, Dior invited seven Spanish photographers to engage in dialogue with the brand with their photographic interpretations of the cruise collection that truly celebrated Andulasian culture.