Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled Tuesday evening, under the Sakuras in flowers from the Tō-ji Temple garden, her fall 2025 collection for the French fashion house. Demonstrating his talent once again, in the footsteps of the inventor of the New Look even in the workshops of the City of Kimono.
At the bottom of an alley in Kyoto, a 90 -year -old gentleman is busy with his loom. From his always agile fingers, he manipulates the coil coils with dexterity, examining with an expert eye the drawing of the brocade which he is making. In the post-war Japan, Toshio Iwama, craftsman of the prestigious Tatsumura art weaving workshop, not yet twenty years at the time, already repeated these same ancestral gestures to weave the meters of fabrics necessary for a coat garnished with blue fox (winter 1952), to a set rehearsing a bird pattern on a cherry in flower (summer 1953) and From Son d’Or (1954), all three scratched Christian Dior.
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This is the kind of history of know-how and tradition of which Maria Grazia Chiuri, the current artistic director of the house on avenue Montaigne, loves. “”You realize, it’s incredible, Such expertise is so rare! She enthuses as she oversees the last details of her …
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