Dioriviera Cruise 2020 Collection Update Pops-Up in Cortina d'Ampezzo

Dior's Cruise 2020 Popup in Cortina d'Ampezzo with Luxury Retailer Franz Kraler

Dior leaves seaside resorts behind, heading to Cortina d’Ampezzo launching a pop-up collab with Italian luxury retailer Franz Kraler. The focus is Dior’s Dioriviera Cruise 2020 Collection with an update. Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri adds a range of bright colors and bold graphics to her blue mood cruise collection inspired by North Africa.

Models Adesuwa Aighewi, Jiali Zhao and Ruth Bell bring the capsule to life, showcasing four new colors including green, fuchsia, yellow and orange. Photographer Nadine Ijewere captures the trio in the final weeks before Cortina and the sunny beaches of St. Bart’s.

Charlize Theron in J'adore Eau de Parfum Holiday 2019

Actor Charlize Theron is the modern muse behind Dior’s J’adore perfume since 2004. It’s the holidays and Charlize stars in the latest campaign for J’adore Eau de Parfum.

"J'adore is an extraordinary fragrance, because it succeeds in being effortlessly seductive while boasting an original signature. J'adore invents a flower that does not exist." says Dior perfumer François Demach.

Brigitte Niedermair Eyes Dior Resort 2020 North Africa-Inspired Collection

Brigitte Niedermair Eyes Dior Resort 2020 North Africa-Inspired Collection

Models Adesuwa Aighewi, Ana Barbosa, Jiali Zhao and Ruth Bell are styled by Isabelle Kountoure in Dior Cruise 2020 Collection. Regular Dior photographer Brigitte Niedermair captures Maria Grazia’s homage to North Africa in a collection about luxury, globalism and culture.

The toile du jouy fabrics were produced as wax prints by studio Uniwax, located in the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan. Months before the collection debut in Marrakech, Maria Grazia packed by her toiles of seasons past—with her jungle creatures, wacky flora, and tarot card allusions, writes Vogue.com — and print their “gloriously and intentionally imperfect, labor intensive” interpretations.

Cara Delevingne, Rebellious Brit, Fronts Dior Joaillerie's Rose des Vents Collection

Top talent, actor, model and activist Cara Delevingne is now the face of Dior Joaillerie, starting with the brand’s Rose des Vents campaign. The Brit has modeled for the Dior brand before and is currently the face of its Addict Stellar Shine lipstick, but this is her first jewelry campaign.

Cara Delevingne for Dior’s Joaillerie Rose des Vents collection.

Describing Cara as “a rebellious English rose”, the announcement continues: ““Much more than a muse, the audacious icon is an endless source of inspiration. For Dior, Cara Delevingne upends the conventional jewellery codes with her characteristic whimsy.”

The Joaillerie's Rose des Vents collection is inspired by Christian Dior’s favorite flower, the rose, and his global travels. The importance of flowers in our lives was also celebrated by Maria Grazia Chiuri’s recent spring 2020 runway show for the luxury house.

In another of Chiuri’s deep-dives into the history of Christian Dior, the creative director was deeply inspired by Christian Dior’s sister Catherine, an active member of the French resistance. The bold, audacious ‘Miss’ in Miss Dior was captured by the French resistance and sent to Ravensbrück, an all-female concentration camp in northern Germany.

Catherine Dior, imprisoned French resistance activist and lover of flowers.

Catherine survived, returning to Paris where she sold her beloved flowers at Les Halles market, where she was the ONLY woman granted a license to trade as a ‘cut flowers broker’. Miss Dior became an acclaimed gardener, botanist and house consultant on flowers.

Catherine Dior’s love for blooms and nature also supported Chiuri’s commitment to the environment at her spring 2020 show. One of her noteworthy initiatives was working with the Paris-based environmental design collective Coloco, which will replant the “show trees” in projects around the city.

Christian Dior SS20 show Paris, Sept. 2019

Real Life Rebel Cara Delevingne Fancies Herself a Dior Teddy Girl; Nice Try, Cara!

Real Life Rebel Cara Delevingne Fancies Herself a Dior Teddy Girl; Nice Try, Cara!

Talented multi-hyphenate Cara Delevingne fancies herself a Teddy Girl, but in reality she read about them in boarding school. Not that anyone doubts Delevingne’s rebel credentials, but in these gorgeous Dior Fall 2019 images from V Magazine.com, she must be having a dinner date with Celine’s bourgeois woman.

Cara Delevingne Fronts Dior Beauty Campaign Lensed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Cara Delevingne Fronts Dior Beauty Campaign Lensed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Super talent Cara Delevingne share the initials of Christian Dior and more in her latest campaign for the luxury brand. Styled by Mariel Haenn, Cara wears luxe neutrals that play a supporting role in the Dior Makeup shoot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. / Makeup by Peter Philips; hair by Ben Skervin

Ruth Bell + Selena Forrest Channel Teddy Girls In Brigitte Niedermair Images For Dior Fall 2019 Campaign

Ruth Bell + Selena Forrest Channel Teddy Girls In Brigitte Niedermair Images For Dior Fall 2019 Campaign

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s feminist message for Christian Dior marches forward into fall celebrating the 1950s Teddy Girls rebellious spirit British subculture. The Teddy Girls more androgynous style represented a turning away from the elegantly feminine New Look from Dior, a style that directed women back home after their much-needed working women stint during WWII.

Zoe Ghertner Captures Suvi Koponen In Pre-Fall Earthy Elegance For Dior Magazine Issue #27

Zoe Ghertner Captures Suvi Koponen In Pre-Fall Earthy Elegance For Dior Magazine Issue #27

Finnish model Suvi Koponen highlights Dior’s pre-fall 2019 collection, styled by Elin Svahn in muted earth colors in fluid fabrics. Photographer Zoe Ghertner captures Suvi for Dior Magazine Issue #27.

Pamela Hanson Captures Dioriviera Bi-Color, Island Classics With Lameka, Malika + Natalie

Pamela Hanson Captures Dioriviera Bi-Color, Island Classics With Lameka, Malika + Natalie

Dior launches a spirited Dioriviera campaign starring Lameka Fox, Malika El Maslouhi and Natalie Ogg, all wearing classical mixes of bi-color stripes and toile prints with Riviera destinations. Fabien Baron is creative director on the shoot with photography by Pamela Hanson.

Elle Fanning's Dior Haute Couture 'New Look' Tribute To ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Cannes Premiere

Elle Fanning's Dior Haute Couture 'New Look' Tribute To ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Cannes Premiere

Actor Elle Fanning was an apparition straight out of old Hollywood glamour, appearing at the Cannes 2019 screening of Quentin Tarantino’s highly-anticipated film ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, wearing a jaw-dropping tribute to Christian Dior’s New Look.

The 21-year-old Fanning is the youngest juror in the history of the Cannes Film Festival and doesn’t appear in ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood’. The film tackles the summer of 1969, a tumultuous moment of American unrest and the Manson murder of pregnant actor Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie). At the time, the pregnant Tate was married to besieged director Roman Polanski.

Dior's Maria Grazia Chiuri + Eleonora Abbagnato's Ballet Costumes For 'Nuit Blanche'

Dior's Maria Grazia Chiuri + Eleonora Abbagnato's Ballet Costumes For 'Nuit Blanche'

Synergies between the worlds of fashion and ballet are intense, with Dior Creative Director of Dior Women Maria Grazia Chiuri crediting dance as a major source of inspiration for her designs. In collaboration with Eleonora Abbagnato—the Director of Ballet at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and an toile at the Opéra National in Paris—Chiuri’s creations are on stage in Rome from March 29 - April 2.

Her stunning collection of costumes for ‘Nuit Blanche’ a ballet in a series of three dances with choreography by Sébastien Bertaud is performed as an ode to composer and musician Philip Glass. Chiuri’s costumes for Abbagnato, principal guest dancer Friedmann Vogel and 16 dancers present a more contemporary examination of concepts of masculinity and femininity. Both genders are dressed in light and delicate, but highly-functional, materials.

Ruth Bell + Selena Forrest Front Dior's Spring/Summer 2019 Ad Campaign, Lensed By Harley Weir

Ruth Bell + Selena Forrest Front Dior's Spring/Summer 2019 Ad Campaign, Lensed By Harley Weir

Models Ruth Bell and Selena Forrest join forces with professional dancers in Dior’s Spring/Summer 2019 ad campaign, lensed by Harley Weir. Continuing the theme of dance, beauty and the female form as expressed in Dior’s spring runway show, the cast reference ethereal fabrics body suits, dresses and open-knit ensembles. Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri speaks to the campaign, saying: ''My work is related to the celebration of the body through clothing and the opportunity it offers us in how we represent ourselves in the eyes of others as well as in our own eyes.''

Eye: Dior Lady Art #3 Is 11 Women Artists Worldwide, Inspiring 2019 AOC Study of Their Extreme Talent

Dior Lady Art #3 Is 11 Women Artists Worldwide, Inspiring 2019 AOC Study of Their Extreme Talent

Dior Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri launched her third Dior Lady Art project in early December 2018, at Miami’s Art Basel. For the first time, this third edition of the maison’s creative initiative, Dior Lady Art, is comprised of an all-woman cast of 11 artists transforming the classic Lady bag into works of art, The bags will now launch in January 2019 in expanded artistry by the same women at select Dior outlets worldwide. (See prior Dior Lady Art projects here. )

Earlier this week, Vogue.com profiled Danish jeweler and ceramist Jo Riis-Hansen, and her words got my attention. “I think the world is so fast,” says Riis-Hansen from her hometown, as her children, 10 and 6, play in the background. “I love fashion, I do, but it’s so fast. I think jewelry needs to slow down a bit, too. [When you buy a piece of jewelry] I think it’s important to [ask]: Where does it come from? Who is this person that made it? Did someone actually put real human or spiritual energy it? That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t buy the fast-fashion [stuff], I’m just pursuing another way of making jewelry, one that [fulfills] a personal need for me, to be able to put all these emotions into [my work].”

In our fast-paced, digital and often disposable world, we rarely understand the answers to Riis-Hansen’s questions. Yet, it’s well known that younger people, in particular, are very focused on these questions about the projects they are buying into.

It’s my intention to answer these questions around my own GlamTribal Design Collection. But after installing this rather laborious entry around Dior Lady Art handbags, it occurs to me that we have a wonderful foundation from which to explore these women artists — their work, their philosophies around art, life, politics and all related topics. We can track their exhibitions and their communities, the experiences that have informed their artistic visions in an ongoing project throughout 2019.

As opposed to this post being just another fashionable data bit in the glut of information on the Internet, we will slow down a bit and really understand the women artists who were chosen by Dior Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri to represent this great luxury brand in its third Dior Lady Art initiative.

Selena Forrest Wears 'Untamed Femininity' Lensed By Vivienne Sassen For Dior Cruise 2019 Campaign

Selena Forrest Wears 'Untamed Femininity' Lensed By Vivienne Sassen For Dior Cruise 2019 Campaign

Top model Selena Forrest joins Jennifer Lawrence in Dior’s Cruise 2019 ad campaign. Elin Svahn styles Selena in DiorCamp ‘Untamed Femininity’ looks lensed by Viviane Sassen with creative direction from Fabien Baron.

Charlize Theron Launches J’Adore Absolu Lady Squad Sensual Goddesses Campaign

Charlize Theron Launches J’Adore Absolu Lady Squad Sensual Goddesses Campaign

The dazzling Charlize Theron continues in her relationship with Dior Parfums as the face of J’Adore Absolu fragrance. In an interview so long and spilling over with candid observations that we will publish it tomorrow in AOC Women In-Depth, Charlize Theron manages to turn a discussion with Harper’s Bazaar UK about her new J’adore Absolu campaign into an extended conversation about diversity and femininity on-screen. Stay tuned.

The film was directed by Romain Gavras, and is a true tribute to the beauty and community of women. Over the song “Flashing Lights” by Kanye West, the new-look lady squad shows off their proud prowess. 

The new Dior J'adore L’absolu campaign, where Theron is seen bathing in a pool of gold, reminds us of the famous 1999 campaign featuring the supermodel Carmen Kass. This time, though, the sensual-yet-powerful character Theron portrays is not alone, as she was in the 2011 campaign below — Anne’s favorite. Theron is surrounded by a diverse array of women who share an ethereal quality. The scene is inspired by the painting ‘The Turkish Bath’ by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Both the campaign and artwork integrate the eroticism of the naked female form into the relaxed sensual communion that women share apart from the male gaze.

Jennifer Lawrence Fronts Dior Cruise 2019 Horsewomen Looks Lensed By Viviane Sassen

Jennifer Lawrence Fronts Dior Cruise 2019 Horsewomen Looks Lensed By Viviane Sassen

Star actor Jennifer Lawrence showcases Maria Grazia Chiuri’s equestrian cruise 2018 collection for Dior. Photographer Viviane Sassen is behind the lens, as Dior sets the scene:

“In a barren landscape, where the architectural lines of concrete walls are warmed by the colors of the desert, Jennifer Lawrence is the embodiment of liberated femininity, dressed in cruise 2019. Inspired by the escaramuzas, the Creative Director of the House, Maria Grazia Chiuri, designed feminine silhouettes whose dresses and petticoats embellished with traditional embroidery evoke the gracious and powerful discipline of these Mexican horsewomen. Toile de Jouy, modernized with a series of wild animals, also plays a key role in the collection. Its motifs appear on coats, skirts and the Dior Book Tote bag. To complete this equestrian look, the Saddle bag with its iconic curves is reinvented in patchwork or Dior Oblique canvas.“

Dior Launches 'Joy' With Jennifer Lawrence As Face Behind Its Third Pillar Fragrance

Dior Launches 'Joy' With Jennifer Lawrence As Face Behind Its Third Pillar Fragrance

Joy' by Dior is a big deal for the luxury house, becoming its third pillar fragrance for women, following Miss Dior (launched in 1947) and J'Adore Dior (1999). Consider a pillar fragrance the mother goddess brand -- Gaia, if you will -- from which all streams flow. The subbrands are like children: J'Adore Dior gave birth to J'Adore L'Or and J'Adore L'Absolu. 

Everything about Joy by Dior is aimed at millennials. “The company had evolved and grown on these two pillars,” said Claude Martinez, chief executive officer of Parfums Christian Dior. “And, three years ago, we felt it was about time to add another one that appealed to the next generation of consumers. … The new generation in Europe and the U.S. — people in their 20s, I’m talking about — are not that much in favor of fragrances. They are disconnected. A brand like Dior needs to be able to talk to them.”

Jennifer Lawrence is the perfect face, says Martinez. "She's very spontaneous . . . She can be laughing one second and crying the next. . . . Joy doesn't last forever. It can disappear as fast as it appears" and for us, Jennifer "is the true incarnation of this joy."

Lawrence had a hand in shaping the new Dior scent according to the man who created it. “It was about six months into the project when she came to visit the laboratory,” said François Demachy, the Parfums Christian Dior perfumer-creator. 

Jennifer Lawrence Covers ELLE France August 31, Lensed By Mark Seliger

Jennifer Lawrence Covers ELLE France August 31, Lensed By Mark Seliger

Actor Jennifer Lawrence has been an ambassador and face of Christian Dior since 2012. Lawrence covers ELLE France's August 31 issue, styled by Isabel Dupre in sensual, femme fatale looks from the fashion house. Mark Seliger is behind the lens, flashing Lawrence, who made a big splash this week launching Dior's first fragrance in 20 years 'Joy' by Dior. / Hair by Jenny Cho; makeup by Fulvia Farolfi

Pamela Hanson Eyes Retro Feminism Parisian Style For Dior Fall Winter 2018.19

Pamela Hanson Eyes Retro Feminism Parisian Style For Dior Fall Winter 2018.19

Dior delivers a retro Fall Winter 2018.19 ad campaign featuring models Lineisy Montero, Ruth Bell, Asya Reznikova, and Evelyn Nagy captured by Pamela Hanson. Karl Templer styles the controversial shoot; set design by Jean Michel Bertin; creative direction by Fabien Baron