While the pre-fall collection, which hits stores soon, was previewed by fashion media in December and is currently being globally promoted via, its Brooklyn Museum-based runway show was all about celebrating the Parisian house, and Chiuri’s close relationship with New York City.
“Maria Grazia is an extraordinary person because she’s, first of all, very generous, because she shares this crucial space on the catwalk with art. These artworks could rival with her clothes, but she doesn’t see it that way. And in that sense, she’s really visionary,” Carnevale said of the creative director’s knack for curating creativity across mediums and eras.with WWD’s Miles Socha in December, the 116 looks leaned into the soigné, gender-bending style of Marlene Dietrich.
Nods to American sportswear included a very sportif take on the Christian Dior Bicentennial 1976 Franco-American hybrid flag silk scarf, reimagined as a ‘90s-nostalgic pullover windshirt with track pants , or graphic “New York-Paris” leggings worn with a leather peacoat. “When you go in the city, you can have different locations and moments, but you don’t come back home, so everything is with you,” she said.