After Seville, Lecce, and Marrakech, the Dior Fall 2023 show was held in Mumbai, India, and celebrated the know-how of Chanakya embroidery and of the Chanakya School of Craft.
As the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre is about to open its doors in Mumbai – a multi-disciplinary artistic space including a museum dedicated to fashion, where Dior creations will soon be exhibited – Maria Grazia Chiuri has opted for the Indian megalopolis to host her Dior Fall 2023 show. Celebrating the business and friendly ties that has bounded her to India and to Karishma Swali over the years – the latter runs the Chanakya embroidery workshops and the Chanakya School of Craft in Mumbai – this collection stands as a creative dialogue perpetuating the precious and exceptional skills uniting France and India.
Drawing her inspiration from the Dior archival creations designed by Marc Bohan following his trip to Mumbai and Delhi in April 1962, Maria Grazia Chiuri has chosen a range of colors and fabrics that exalts the common influences she shares with Karishma Swali. In addition to timeless silhouettes that have now become ideal blank canvases on which the embroidery work stand out, a sequence of the show has been dedicated to silks – green, yellow, pink, and purple ones. As a tribute to Marc Bohan, those silks take shape in a collection of sophisticated evening coats, straight skirts inspired by saris and traditional Indian cuts, trousers, small boleros, jackets, and bras. A true sartorial genealogy defined by the various fashion heritages and cultures.
Alongside the muses and friends of the fashion house, like Camille Cottin, Juliette Armanet, Charithra Chandran, and Laetitia Casta, Dior also invited renowned Indian actresses, such as Freida Pinto, Sonam Kapoor, and model Indrani Dasgupta.
Charithra Chandran, Camille Cottin, Freida Pinto… the stars at Dior’s Mumbai show.
Camille Cottinu at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Laetitia Casta at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Cara Delevingne at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Charithra Chandran at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Freida Pinto at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Deva Cassel at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Simone Ashley at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Juliette Armanet at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Satheene Sednaoui at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Mickalene Thomas at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Sonam Kapoor at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Yara Shahidi at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Maisie Williams at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Aomi Ackie at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Poorna Jagannathan at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Iindrani Dasgupta at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Jessie Buckley at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Karlie Kloss at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Ananya Panday at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Anoushka Shankar at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Anushka Sharma at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Athiya Shetty at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Beatrice Borromeo at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Blanca Miro at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Celeste at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Claire Deboo at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Diana Penty at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Elizabeth Von Guttmann at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Ella Richards at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Alex Riviere at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Karisma Kapoor at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Khushi Kapoor at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Lakshmi Menon at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Liza Koshy at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Lucie de la Falaise at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Maria de la Orden at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Mathilde Warnier at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Mira Rajput Kapoor at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Sabine Getty at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Shweta Bachchan at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Sobhita Dhulipala at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show
Sofia Achaval de Montaigu at Dior’s Fall 2023 Mumbai show