Dior Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025: fashion dreams 

The new Dior haute couture collection imagined by Maria Grazia Chiuri is a dialogue between creative themes from the sartorial memory, presented against the backdrop of a monumental colorful installation by artist Rithika Merchant.

Nine original paintings have been brought to life as textile works by Karishma Swali, the Chanakya workshops and the Chanakya School of Craft, composing an immersive visual landscape that weaves together stories of womanhood across generations.   

Like Alice’s looking glass, the mirrors that fill the haute couture atelier allow access through to another reality. Here, the Trapèze line, originally conceived by Yves Saint Laurent for Dior in 1958, becomes an inspiration for coats, and Christian Dior’s Cigale look for the Fall-Winter 1952-1953 haute couture collection is updated in a skirt with a fitted tailcoat. Balanced on the cusp of dream and reality, silhouettes morph into a flower-woman in a cape of petals, or bird-woman wearing a punk Mohican headpiece, reaching for the sky. Floral draping and organza feathers embellish the women in spectacular finery.  

 A modern and practical version of crinoline creates new volumes. The visible structures of cages reveal legs, and the cascades of embroidered cages undulate with every movement. Lace-trimmed tulle culottes, transparency and visible bustiers infuse a palpable sensuality. The predominance of black, white, gold and silver hues magnifies the enchantment of dresses whose color metamorphoses in step with the time of haute couture.