Dior Fall 2025 links Monsieur Dior’s 1957 outerwear spirit to present reflections on movement and space.
Maria Grazia Chiuri frames Dior’s Fall 2025 collection as a meeting point of pattern and space, treating fabric like the interior of a building: lived in, shaped by movement, always attentive to the body it houses. Her study begins with the kimono jacket, a garment that folds flat yet opens into volume—a form Monsieur Dior acknowledged in 1957 with his Diorpaletot and Diorcoat, conceived to sit over a kimono without breaking its line.
Archival notes travel farther east. A 1971 Tokyo showing of Marc Bohan’s designs and a recent visit to Kyoto’s exhibition Love Fashion: In Search of Myself spark questions about how clothing habits define identity. Chiuri returns to Paris with those questions stitched into every seam.
Back in the atelier, she builds coats and jackets with expansive proportions, some cinched at the waist, others left to drape like open screens. Silk carries delicate sketches of a Japanese garden; black grounds the palette in saturated calm. Long skirts and wide trousers ripple with each step, while floral motifs stand alone as prints, dense and self‑contained. Threads of gold pick out the edges, a restrained glimmer rather than decoration for its own sake.
Nothing here feels borrowed wholesale. Instead, familiar shapes hover next to fresh ones—kimono logic beside tailored ease—suggesting clothing as shared architecture across cultures. Chiuri keeps the body at the center of the plan, proving that space, whether built or worn, is ultimately a question of how we choose to live inside it.
