Dior and Saint Laurent: an elevated discussion between past and future

Christian Dior delves into luxurious wearable tech, while Saint Laurent reinvents art deco with a contemporary twist.

I'd like to start a conversation between technology and everyday life," says Maria Grazia Chiuri backstage a few minutes before the start of the Christian Dior Fall-Winter 2022-23 show. Subtle clues on the direction of this collection are floating around her - such as a cover of Donna Haraway's Chtulucene piece, a driving force in feminism and post-humanism.

I want to open a feminist outlook on what we envelop our bodies in, and how that has the power to free," Chiuri says of a collection that she conceived as a discussion between technology, tradition and emancipation, and between past, present and future.