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Since her arrival at the head of the Dior house, Maria Grazia Chiuri has continued to make evocations and references supported in divinatory art, as a way of extending the work of Christian Dior.The couturier was a great follower of the cartomancer and other disreuses of good adventures since one of them predicted his meteoric ascent to him when he was only 14 years old.This time, it is all her Haute Couture Spring-summer 2021 collection that Maria Grazia Chiuri dedicated to the tarot.In a context of global pandemic, where the future remains perpetually uncertain, Dior's artistic director is considering tarot as an invitation to question oneself, a tool in this existential quest."I believe in the possibility that each of us can define their own future by their choices and their daily work.I don't want to know the future through the cards.What fascinates me in the tarot is the role he can play in exploring our inner life, and how it allows us to know more about the hidden part of ourselves, ”said the recently theArtistic director of the Dior house.

On video, the film "Le Château du Tarot" by the Dior Haute Couture Spring-summer 2021-2022 parade

A heroine in full introspection

To give life to her vision, the designer collaborated once again with Matteo Garrone.The Italian filmmaker - author among others of Gomorra or Pinocchio - signs the film of this collection presented only online, as he had already done last July.Called "Le Château du Tarot", this very cinematographic short film was shot at the Château de Sammezzano, near Florence in Italy."Before this project, I didn't know everything about the tarot," says Matteo Garrone.But, I was very quickly fascinated by the history of this divinatory game which inspired many painters from the 15th and 16th century.The scenario quickly took place in my mind: it was a question of telling the interior path of a young girl who consults a clairvoyant to find out who she is really.By chatting with Maria Grazia, we thought about the cards and mysteries that she could meet during this introspection.»The collection was born from this creative dialogue.

On video, behind the scenes of the creation of the Dior Haute Couture dress "Death"

The work of goldsmiths of little hands

In this castle which is like the labyrinth of his life, the heroine finds herself confronted with multiple choices symbolized by characters with a worthy of the princesses of the Renaissance, embodying the major mysteries of the game of the tarot: the Empress appears in dresslong velvet devoured velvet printed gold zodiac, the temperance appears in a draped dress of a velvet piece with a thousand flowers painted by hand, the Bateleur is long coat embroidered with feathers and flame -flame silk dress ... all the workSmall hands of haute couture workshops is revealed in these ornate dresses.A big evening cloakroom that lends to dreams, the hope of a more festive aftermath.Besides, it is no coincidence that death comes last, spectacular in its pleated gasel dress, entirely embroidered with crystal jewelry, which required 1200 hours of work."This card may seem frightening because it indicates the end of something," emphasizes Matteo Garrone.But it is not necessarily negative.In reality, it means that a new chapter can open up, it evokes renewal, the Renaissance.»»