Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025: Chiuri's punk baroque strikes a lethal blow to minimalism

To define the present, the French label has looked to the past. For the Haute Couture collection for Spring/Summer 2025, Maria Grazia Chiuri has searched the archives of the maison and reinvigorated two of the ideas that marked the way for couture in the 1950s: the Cigale silhouette, sketched by Christian Dior in 1952, and the Trapèze line, conceived by Yves Saint Laurent on his debut at the house in 1958. Both pursued the same effect: to lengthen the woman's body in an A-line shape. In her reinvention of patterns, the Roman couturier turns the wheel of time. The timelessness of couture techniques is made explicit in current trends