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An ode to the shakti of craft
Updated On: 02 April, 2023 08:44 AM IST | Mumbai | Shweta Shiware
Female energy was the fuel driving the Dior Fall 2023 show last week that celebrated silai, bunai and Bollywood. What’s not to like?
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If someone had stood in front of the Gateway of India last Thursday night and asked no one in particular, “Where are the guys?”, they wouldn’t have been wrong.
It was an evening that belonged to women. From Christian Dior’s creative director of women’s collections Maria Grazia Chiuri, who collaborated with Karishma Swali, creative director of Chanakya International and Chanakya School of Craft, to the hundreds of female artisans whose deft handiwork was celebrated in the glamorous setting of a fashion show to the unmatchable Rekha, who made heads turn in a Kanjeevaram even as the rest of the celeb crowd chose to serenade haute couture… the women were front and centre.
The cast of models—all women again—walked under the canopy of the Toran, a 46-foot tall site-specific archway made from Indian embroidery into an LED-diya lit trail lined with floor panels of flowers to imitate rangoli designs. Guests sat on carved wooden diwans plumped with cushions to watch models step out in pearl chokers and velvet flatforms to the rhythm of one of India’s finest female tabla maestros, Anuradha Pal. The scenes from the Dior Fall 2023 show captured the essence of India’s heritage, both architectural and artistic. “I am very emotional to realise this show in Mumbai,” Chiuri told a few journalists during an interaction. “It is a dream that we have had for a long time. It is so important to celebrate the culture, creativity that is this country.”
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