Maria Grazia Chiuri

Maria Grazia Chiuri (Italian pronunciation: [maˈriːa ˈgrattsja ˈkjuːri]; born February 1964) is an Italian fashion designer, and the current creative director at Dior.

Maria Grazia Chiuri
Born1964 (age 55–56)
Rome, Italy
EducationIstituto Europeo di Design
OccupationFashion designer
TitleCreative director at Dior
Spouse(s)Paolo Regini
Children2

Life

Chiuri was born in 1964 in Rome, Italy. Her father was in the military and her mother was a dressmaker, she had five sisters.[1][2] She has cited her grandmother, mother and sisters as an inspiration.[2] She studied at IED, Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome.

Career

Chiuri joined Fendi in 1989. While at Fendi she helped develop the famous Baguette bag[3][1] and recruited the designer Pierpaolo Piccioli to join the department.[3][4] In 1999 Valentino Garavani personally recruited Chiuri & Piccioli to Valentino where they established accessories including eyewear and handbags for the Italian fashion house; later in 2003 the pair also began to manage creative direction for the Red Valentino diffusion collection. Chiuri and Piccioli were named co-creative directors of Valentino in 2008 overseeing full artistic direction for the brand including Womenswear, Menswear & Haute Couture, and both were awarded the CFDA International Award for their work in 2015.

In July 2016 Chiuri was appointed the creative director of Dior.[5][6][7] Vanessa Freidman of The New York Times reported "She will be the first woman to lead the creative side in the label’s 69-year history,[8] and the role will be her first solo appointment after more than two decades of working with Pierpaolo Piccioli,[9] who has been named creative director at Valentino."[5] The Irish Times remarked "As artistic director of the storied Paris fashion house, Ms Chiuri will follow in the footsteps of designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Gianfranco Ferre and John Galliano."[10]

In September 2016 Chiuri debuted her first collection for Christian Dior SE in Paris.[11] The show featured many feminist references including a T-shirt bearing the title of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's essay We Should All Be Feminists.[12][13] Chiuri would continue this theme in subsequent shows including a reference to Linda Nochlin's essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? for SS18 as well as a collaboration with artist Judy Chicago and The Chanakya School of Craft for the set of her SS20 Haute Couture collection at Dior.[14] According to Chiuri “The new generation has raised big questions about gender, race, environment and cultures that we have to reflect in fashion,”.[15]

However, other collections have caused controversy over uncredited references to traditional Romanian folk costumes and led to public backlash under the hashtag #GiveCredit.[16]

Chiuri's work is often described as youthful, and she cites her daughter Rachele Regini as a muse.[15][2]

Personal life

She married Paolo Regini, a shirtmaker, and has a son Niccolò and a daughter Rachele.[1]

References
  1. Collins, Lauren. "How Maria Grazia Chiuri Brought Feminism To the House of Dior". W Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. Petrarca, Emilia (2018-10-18). "Maria Grazia Chiuri Is Learning to See Fashion Through Her Daughter's Eyes". The Cut. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  3. "Maria Grazia Chiuriis One of the 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry in 2018". The Business of Fashion. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  4. (in Chinese) Valentino的革新者：Maria Grazia Chiuri与Pierpaolo Piccioli 18 November 2014. Retrieved 2016-07-23
  5. Friedman, Vanessa (8 July 2016). "Maria Grazia Chiuri Now at Dior: How It Happened. What It Means". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  6. Mower, Sarah (8 July 2016). "It's Official: Maria Grazia Chiuri Is in at Christian Dior". Vogue. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  7. Kostov, Nick (8 July 2016). "Dior Names Valentino's Maria Grazia Chiuri as New Creative Chief". WSJ. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  8. Holt, Bethan; Spedding, Emma (8 July 2016). "Dior appoints first-ever female creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri". The Telegraph. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  9. Phelps, Nicole (7 July 2016). "Breaking: Valentino Confirms Maria Grazia Chiuri's Departure". Vogue. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  10. Paul, Mark (21 March 2013). "Dior names Maria Grazia Chiuri as artistic director". The Irish Times. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  11. Vogue (6 July 2016). "Maria Grazia Chiuri nommée directrice artistique de Dior". Vogue (in French). Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  12. Steff Yotka, "Maria Grazia Chiuri Makes a Feminist Statement at Her Dior Debut", Vogue, 30 September 2016.
  13. "Dior makes a Bold Statement with Chimamanda Adichie’s “We Should All Be Feminists” at Paris Fashion Week", BellaNaija, 1 October 2016.
  14. "The Dior couture show set was created with the help of 150 female students”, AMY DE KLERK, 22 January 2020.
  15. "It's a woman's world for Dior's Maria Grazia Chiuri". South China Morning Post. 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  16. The #GiveCredit Campaign Continues: it was discovered that Dior also copied a traditional Bukovinean waistcoat, 27 June 2017
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