Spring-Summer 2025 Ready-to-Wear Show

Maria Grazia Chiuri's objective for this Dior spring-summer 2025 ready-to-wear collection is to recapitulate the meaning of the garment, as if each model has been given the chance to speak and reveal the work preceding its own construction. Pushing back the boundaries between the oeuvre itself and the artistic process, the Creative Director aims to bring fashion back to its origins and emphasizethe relationship connecting the body and what dresses it, between intention and function. With this in mind, she has assembled and reinterpreted cuts from the archives, starting with the Amazone dress dreamed up by Christian Dior for autumn-winter 1951-1952, which takes her to the legendary female figure, known for her strength of spirit, a reference point for the notion of an autonomous, courageous femininity.

Choreographing archives implies forming links between several elements, before revisiting and then reviving them in an unprecedented way. This new, resolutely graphic line plays on the contrast between black and white: checks, horizontal and vertical traits celebrate the Miss Dior logo, elongated to the extreme.

White pieces, such as shirts, are paired with black skirts, pants and dresses, declaring their character in this interplay of duality(ies). The bright red accents of the bomber jackets serve as a counterpoint. The embroidery – which here and there becomes butterflies or fringes – provides shimmering metallic punctuations. Jersey accompanies lightweight evening dresses, and sports shirts, simple or enhanced with shiny embellishments, everyday protagonists in their own right.

This year, the body, fashion and sport are words that, thanks notably to the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, have (re)given signification to gender equality, inclusivity, respect and acceptance of one's own limits. Maria Grazia Chiuri thus asked SAGG Napoli, an artist who uses archery in her work, to perform in the catwalk space. “May the building of a strong mind and a strong body be the greatest work I have ever made” is one of the emblematic phrases appearing on the set.

A modern Amazon, SAGG Napoli sees fashion as a visual attribute, an affirmation of her athletic shape. She tackles one of the oldest disciplines – archery – which demands the harmonization of body and mind.

On the runway, where time is suspended from that of fashion, the collection exalts the force and assertive power of contemporary femininity.

Looks

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Modern Amazon

Con il cuore in una mano e l'arco nell'altra – the oeuvre thought up for the Dior spring-summer 2025 ready-to-wear show – fusing installation and performance, was conceived by SAGG Napoli. A hypnotic creative dialogue celebrating the figure of the Amazon – so dear to Maria Grazia Chiuri – through different eras and cultures. Manifesto texts punctuate an impressive 70-metre metal and glass structure, in which the artist-athlete engaged, during the show, in a session of archery, a sport she took up in 2020, and now practices at a high level, training and competing regularly in Italy. The precision, absolute focus and physical musicality that she has developed are now predominant in her life and her art. A captivating echo to the excellence and elegance in motion of the looks dreamed up by the Creative Director of Dior women's lines.

“To have patience means to trust a process and set intentions and goals, to move towards each one of them, slowly allowing the technical movements to sync with your muscles and your mind.” SAGG Napoli

The Art Of Movement

At the convergence of refinement and audacity, strength and sensibility, the mythological figure of the Amazon that inspires the show comes to life in silhouettes conveying a totally new look at women's power of action, through the prism of their wardrobe.

The lexicon of sport, initiated in 1962 with the Dior Sport line, can be seen in a series of knit swimsuits and undershirts, some entirely embroidered with multi-faceted pearls, revealing asymmetrical constructions. This graphic interplay, emphasized by the iconic duality of black and white, is revealed throughout the défilé, and transposed onto revisited skirts, shirts or suit jackets; a rereading of the House's archives, following the example of the Amazone dress (autumn-winter 1951-1952). Inhabited by the universe of motor racing, jumpsuits, bombers and pants embody the fascinating tension between performance and elegance. Echoing sublimely the work and convictions of SAGG Napoli, artist-athlete and archer, the outfits are enhanced by archery-inspired harnesses, featuring straps and technical details. A sportswear odyssey punctuated here and there by the extremely elongated “Dior” logo, evoking an ultra-contemporary visual culture.

Sporty Poetry

Functionality meets elegance in unique accessories conceived to accompany the body in action. Bags, for example, are reinvented via systematic cross-body carrying, with enlarged, supple volumes that give the silhouette an instant athletic allure. Gloves, absolute symbols of femininity, rise delicately from wrist to shoulder, sculpting, streamlining and magnificently lengthening the arm; new (and old) proportions that gradually shape them into garment in its own right. Other models revisit the protective gear of archers as an ode to the links between fashion and sport. This stylistic fusion is also expressed in shoes that hijack/transcend the sportswear wardrobe: openwork sneakers, casual gladiator sandals and hybrid gaiters. In turn, Dior Tribales jewelry is adorned with subtle golden arrows. A precious, enchanting panoply, at once objects of desire and use, from metamorphosis to movement.

Backstage

Optical Interplay

An ode to the power and grace of the body in motion, the looks of the Dior spring-summer 2025 ready-to-wear collection are enhanced by sparkling embroidery – irresistibly scintillating – or bold prints with a resolutely statement spirit.

Shimmering

Freeing itself from its figurative role, embroidery – fringes, tassels or pearls – unfurls all over a series of exceptional pieces, such as delicate leotards/bodysuits; a structural element of the garment, a detail in perpetual motion. A choreography of virtuoso savoir-faire.

Graphic Traits

Punctuating the pieces in the collection, the “Dior” logo is metamorphosed into an unprecedented graphic version inspired by the House's archives. Elongated to the extreme, the letters are transformed into horizontal lines, like bewitching stripes that dare all contrasts. A hypnotic creative audacity.