Robert Pattinson, Yara Shahidi, and Charlize Theron Sit Front Row at Dior’s Spring-Summer 2024 Women’s Show In Paris

Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri had a lot to say as she explored femininity with stunning message posted on the walls of the runway space.

Charlize Theron is a fixture for the House of Dior. She sat front row with her fellow actors Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence, who like her, have been the face of a Dior campaign or two. Theron is the face of the new J’adore L’or fragrance that launched this month, of which she has been the face of since its inception twenty plus years ago. Also sitting front row was Pierre Casiraghi, from the Monégasque royal family.

Actors Yara Shahidi, Robert Pattinson, and Charlize Theron arriving to the Dior show | Photo Credit: Dior

Chiuri is on a roll this month. She dressed Queen Camilla in custom Dior for a state dinner at the Palace of Versailles last week, when she and King Charles III were in Paris for a state visit. And, she was on a roll today with this new collection, exploring the present and future, and a world in which Chiuri believes both must coexist. For her, the ways in which women have been treated in the past no longer serves them.

Posted on the walls from a video instillation by artist Elena Bellantoni, of LED screens were messages like: "Put on a stunning makeup to make up with your man," a type of mockery to let the world know that a mentality like this no longer serves women, but a mentality that helps women realize their worth is one that is welcomed.

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Chiuri’s interest shines a light on the rebels who stood up for their independence in a masculine world. Playing with these codes, she takes the jacket, a masculine symbol of medieval style and plays with its architectural silhouette.

Italian artist Alberto Burri is an inspiration, while knitwear is a main player in the collection in how it hugs the feminine form, not restricting. And a color palette of ash, chamomile and love potions take center stage. It’s not your typical Maria Grazia Chiuri collection. There’s a lot of black, a play on masculine shapes, with no traces of the quintessential floral femininity that we’re used to seeing Chiuri produce.

This collection turns around notions that the body and clothing have to be antonymous, but rather it restores the idea that the body and clothing can be in harmony with the present times.