From Scotland and India to Mexico and now Japan, Dior brought its French savoir-faire to the garden of To-ji Temple in Kyoto. Presenting the House’s Fall 2025 collection, Maria Grazia Chiuri found inspiration in the architecture of fashion, where garments become living spaces for the body. With a collection rooted in forging connections between East and West, Chiuri invited us to consider how cultures dress, move, and express identity, weaving stories as intricate as the garments themselves.
Drawing inspiration from Dior’s own archives—from Monsieur Dior’s 1957 kimono coats to Marc Bohan’s legendary 1971 Tokyo show—Chiuri offered a contemporary meditation on heritage and transformation. Jackets and coats, generous and gently belted, floated around the body like silk armour, their architecture echoing both the dignity of the kimono and the fluidity of modern life. Each silhouette echoed the beauty of a Japanese garden, with prints sketched delicately across sumptuous silks and deep, inky blacks.
Wide trousers and long skirts moved with every step, as if breathing, while golden embroidery threaded a narrative of desire and reverence throughout the collection. Chiuri’s odyssey—sparked in part by her visit to Kyoto’s Love Fashion: In Search of Myself exhibition—sought to bridge two distinct fashion cultures, exploring how bodies inhabit, resist, and are celebrated by clothing across.
With this season, Dior engaged in a quiet yet powerful conversation between culture and identity, body and garment. Here, fashion becomes a language of its own—an ode to the spaces we inhabit and their impact on us.
This story first appeared on GRAZIA International.
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