PARIS, Jan 24 — From cabaret feathers to sleek suits and velvet robes, Dior celebrated Josephine Baker and the wild freedom of the Roaring Twenties in a celeb-packed show on...
PARIS, Jan 24 — From cabaret feathers to sleek suits and velvet robes, Dior celebrated Josephine Baker and the wild freedom of the Roaring Twenties in a celeb-packed show on Monday to kickstart haute couture week in Paris.
Singer, dancer, activist and member of the French Resistance, “Baker was a great artist... who used her clothes to establish herself and her position,” Maria Grazia Chiuri, head designer for Dior womenswear, told AFP ahead of the show. Baker came to Paris in 1925 to perform in the Revue Negre at the Champs-Elysees Theatre where she was expected to play up to the racial stereotypes of the day.
Chiuri’s collection paid tribute to each of her manifestations, with feathers and silver fringes evoking her cabaret day, through the flowing sleek suits of her later style, and the more masculine suits evoking her swinging sexuality.
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