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PARIS, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Dior designer Maria Grazia Chiuri looked back to Catherine de Medici’s reign and modernized hoop dresses, corsets and platform shoes, working it into a modern line for the label’s spring collection.
“I think she was the first to understand the power of fashion,” Chiuri told Reuters in an interview, noting that the 16th-century French queen wore heels on stage to enhance her petite figure.
Models wore wide, bell-shaped hoop skirts, lace shorts and long black coats covered in embroidered flowers in an elaborate grotto structure, carved out of cardboard.
Built by artist Eva Jospin, it sits in the middle of a temporary structure set up in the Tuileries Gardens.
Crowds gathered under umbrellas waiting to see the arrival of celebrities including K-pop star Jisoo, Natalie Portman and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
The LVMH-owned label held a second day of ready-to-wear shows for Paris Fashion Week, which runs until October 4.
De Medici introduced embroidery to the French court, Chiuri said, adding three-dimensional flowers in raffia and delicate lace undergarments throughout the collection — modernizing things, using technical fabrics for crinoline dresses and exposing the middle of many looks.
The idea was to “create a baroque party in a modern way,” Chiuri said.
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Reporting by Mimosa Spencer; Editing by Jonathan Otis
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