FASHION
Alchemy is a form of magic , so the transformation of images , or bodies , in art acts on dream / psychic substance .* ( Leonora Carrington )
“ Surrealist images manage to make visible what is in itself invisible . I ’ m interested in mystery and magic , which are also a way of exorcising uncertainty about the future ,” says Maria Grazia Chiuri of her fall-winter 2020-2021 haute couture collection .
During this unprecedented period , the Creative Director of Dior women ’ s collections chose to focus on the work of artists such as Lee Miller , Dora Maar and Jacqueline Lamba , who transcended the role of “ muses ” to which their beauty had initially relegated them in order to champion – in their lives and surrealist works a different femininity .
Long peplum dress in greige pleated crepe satin . © Dior
* Excerpt from Surrealist Women : An International Anthology , edited by Penelope Rosemont .
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