We just took a look at the folks who attended this show, but the question remains: What did they see from that front row?
On the eve of the Paris Olympics, [Maria Grazia Chiuri’s] idea was to recast sportswear through a couture lens. Her very first collection at Dior was dedicated to fencing. Here, she married Ancient Greece, the birthplace of the Olympics, with the 1924 Games, when women were fighting to be taken seriously as athletes and also, thanks to the Industrial Revolution and the invention of jersey fabric, adopting new forms of dress better adapted to the movements required for sports. She called out Alice Milliat, a rower whose tireless advocacy helped get women’s track and field competitions into the 1928 Olympics.
Neato!
