Maria Grazia Chiuri on Her Female Perspective at Dior | Inside Fashion
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of the opening of the UK’s largest retrospective on Christian Dior, Chiuri talks about the importance of couture and her perspective as the first female creative director of the house.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember when everybody was so shocked that French house could be called an Italian designer. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think the essence of Christian Dior is? |
| 0:15.0 | I don't think that he was only a Couture. He was also a strategic businessman. Given that you're the first woman who's ever designed for Christian Dior, |
| 0:24.6 | are you conscious of adding something to the vocabulary |
| 0:28.6 | in a more sort of political-directed way perhaps? |
| 0:32.6 | I think that everything is political. |
| 0:34.6 | It's not possible not to be political. Mr. Dior too spoke about like the |
| 0:40.9 | women was important for him, but I say not forget the women in another way. Hi, this is Imran |
| 0:48.1 | Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion. Today we have a very special episode of the B.OF podcast. Back in 2016, |
| 0:57.8 | Maria Grazie Curie became the first ever female creative director of Dior. But before Maria |
| 1:04.6 | Grazie, there was a whole host of male designers, starting with the founder himself, Christian Dior. |
| 1:10.9 | Well, this week in London, there is a brand new exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum |
| 1:15.7 | that explores the history of Dior. |
| 1:18.4 | Maria Grazia sat down with Tim Blanks to talk about being the first female creative director of Dior, |
| 1:24.5 | her longstanding relationship with the brand, and the history and future of Dior |
| 1:29.0 | with the great heritage of all the designers that came before her. So here's Tim Blanks and Maria |
| 1:35.2 | Grazzii inside fashion. So Maria Grazia, we've just walked around the exhibition, Christian Dior, |
| 1:43.8 | designer of dreams. |
| 1:45.0 | How do you feel when you walk through all those spaces filled with all those amazing things, |
| 1:51.0 | and then you come to the end and there you are? |
| 1:54.0 | That's impressed me a lot, because V&A, in any case is a so important place |
| 2:03.6 | that I never made to be with my job in an exposition |
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