5 Things To Know About Dior’s Haute-Homespun Cruise 2021 Show
While most of the world is going nowhere, Maria Grazia Chiuri is going back to her roots. The designer took the Dior cruise 2021 show to Lecce, the stunning Baroque city in Puglia, in southern Italy, for a show that placed the emphasis squarely on craftsmanship – as well as family. “This show is about craftsmanship, the references that I vividly remember from the past: the embroidery, the textiles that I saw my grandmother and uncle make when I was a child,” the designer said.
Taking place in the latter stages of a pandemic, Dior’s decision to go “on with the show” was about supporting one of the poorest regions in Italy, too. Local artisans had been employed to work on the clothes way back in November, and, in the event, local dancers and musicians in a masked-up Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta performed traditional pieces (and a newly commissioned score by Paolo Buonvino) from Salento. As the choreographer Sharon Eyal said in a video released on Dior’s Instagram channel: “Dior is giving us the possibility of portraying this new woman who dances the pizzica. She is a woman who is at ease in the world and she knows how to put everyone else at ease around her.”
Alas, there wasn’t much of a live audience to witness such grace in person, though a small selection of guests made the trip, lining the rooftops around the square to catch the show, while thousands more watched via livestream. Here, five things to know about Dior’s cruise 2021 show.