Maria Grazia Chiuri - Designer

[chalayan]

So Saturday must be a woman too .

let me get this straight: you have that horrible little man harris reed running around, turning fashion into one big woke gender-fluid circus and none of the hive minded fashion gays™ bat an eyelid. some of them even lap it up. but maria grazia chiuri reliably produces competently designed (if incredibly boring) clothes every season and for some reason its knives out?

i'm not here to defend her blandness but there are absolutely double standards that exist and i wouldn't be surprised if they are rooted in misogyny.

 

[LadyJunon]

let me get this straight: you have that horrible little man harris reed running around, turning fashion into one big woke gender-fluid circus and none of the hive minded fashion gays™ bat an eyelid. some of them even lap it up. but maria grazia chiuri reliably produces competently designed (if incredibly boring) clothes every season and for some reason its knives out?

i'm not here to defend her blandness but there are absolutely double standards that exist and i wouldn't be surprised if they are rooted in misogyny.

Nina Ricci is nearly non-existant compared to the 2nd largest couture house. If Dior was the size of Nina Ricci fashion operations and had the same reach, we'd be forgetting about her work the second it leaves our field of sight.

 

[VogueDisciple93]

there's quite literally nothing about her designs or her character that warrant this level of vitriol. it reads as thinly veiled misogyny.

Then you can’t read.

 

[chalayan]

Then you can’t read.

i'm sitting here, reading your braindead misogynistic posts.

 

[VogueDisciple93]

i'm sitting here, reading your braindead misogynistic posts.

LOL! I hope you’re having fun because not even your ridiculousness could ruin the joy of no more MGC (at Dior)!

tenor.com

 

[Mody]

What MGC has achived with her tenue is really something else, commercially. I think people should acknowledge that while critizing her creative work. For me, I think she understood a huge client base that wasn't served at the time when she got the job and was able to continue to serve these clients throughout her tenure. That is also applaudabe. But I find it hard to remember her Dior tenure with any specific 'woman'. With Galliano, you had those supermodels and great fashion moment, with Raf you had Jennifer Lawrence. For her, celebrities would rather dress in vintage pieces not hers. TBH, the only thing that makes an impact between the reaction towards her and Anthony V at YSL is the ability to create a believable fashion image.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

It was time for her to go regardless of the circumstances. She simply had nothing left to offer the brand, just look at the D-Journey bag. A brand at Dior's caliber has to be relevant at all times, resting on complacency would only lead to disaster.

 

[Frederic01]

Her best collections were the early ones when Karl Templer was the stylist. It got much worse after they switched to Elin Svahn.

Agree 100000000%

Not sure if Elin Svahn had Maria Grazia in a chokehold or if maybe she was dating her daughter, but their partnership was godawful and juvenile, and it baffles me to this day why she insisted on working with her.

The clothes came alive in editorials when styled differently and on other models. It was like black and white. Even celebrity stylists (I am thinking whoever dresses Jennifer Lawrence and Natalie Portman) were better at putting the clothes together. They elevated Maria Grazia’s work in a way that Svahn was never able to.

Seriously if Maria Grazia chooses to come back to the fashion industry someone PLEASE tell her to shake up her team, because at the moment the combination of everyone as as MGC team is tired with a capital T. It’s exhausting to watch the same stale stuff come out every few months because no one has the integrity to call it out.

 

[LadyJunon]

What MGC has achived with her tenue is really something else, commercially. I think people should acknowledge that while critizing her creative work. For me, I think she understood a huge client base that wasn't served at the time when she got the job and was able to continue to serve these clients throughout her tenure. That is also applaudabe. But I find it hard to remember her Dior tenure with any specific 'woman'. With Galliano, you had those supermodels and great fashion moment, with Raf you had Jennifer Lawrence. For her, celebrities would rather dress in vintage pieces not hers. TBH, the only thing that makes an impact between the reaction towards her and Anthony V at YSL is the ability to create a believable fashion image.

Bingo. Vaccarello's YSL was as repetitive as Chuiri's Dior, but it has one of the best art directions of this era. A good show and campaign with good styling and a strong cast could've easily transformed Chuiri's women from insecure wallflowers to regal socialites.

 

[KilltheLook]

Bingo. Vaccarello's YSL was as repetitive as Chuiri's Dior, but it has one of the best art directions of this era. A good show and campaign with good styling and a strong cast could've easily transformed Chuiri's women from insecure wallflowers to regal socialites.

The other problem is Maria tried to catch a wild net of customers so her clothes ended up being identity-less.
Vacarello is repetitive too but he’s not hiding the fact that ysl women is sex burnished to the high octanes. He doesn’t care that much about middle age women who are not wearing size 36. That narrow point of view did give his reign a strong visual identity.

 

[Xone]

This woman is getting ridiculous at this point to rant about this:

 

[Salvatore]

This woman is getting ridiculous at this point to rant about this:

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What is she upset about ? I cannot really tell.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

What is she upset about ? I cannot really tell.

"the highest of bad taste as it evokes an obituary".

the succinct years of her tenure 2016-2025.

and maybe the black profile.

(if I interpret S. Nicholetti's text correctly)

 

[Xone]

"the highest of bad taste as it evokes an obituary".

the succinct years of her tenure 2016-2025.

and maybe the black profile.

(if I interpret S. Nicholetti's text correctly)

exactly....i understand why but i think she is overreacting and made that post for boosting likes,etc

 

[Royal-Galliano]

One thing that I really hated about her tenure was the casting. Every time it looked like a parade of the blandest and saddest teenage girls they could find.

thank you for this comment. i always felt the same – her shows were like armani of paris. clothes most likely not bad, but as insipid as they were, dior would actually have to bother and put on a show. and they were all painful and boring. she killed the show in a fashion show.
same for the ad campaigns. at this point, i have zero expectations from JW.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

^ I mean one can easily look at the image and see that the year range clearly wouldn’t align with an obituary. Do think it’s odd that they went with something a little Lagerfeld-esque in profile for her.

I think doing something for Blazy with his tenure at BV would be pointless, whereas she was there for nearly 10 years. Susanna is clutching at straws. It’s desperate and clingy.

 

[Salvatore]

I missed the part about it looking like an obituary, but I didn't get that. Very bizarre reaction.

 

[Creative]

I think the fact that they are praising her so much it's actually gaining Dior some respect and buzz. I saw Tik Tok and Instagram and all the people that don't know a thing about fashion are fangirling about her and about the brand. This whole thing might get her last offerings some cult status (take it with a pinch of salt). The Dior store was packed yesterday, which is not usually the case as of late.

Also, some women that have no idea about feminism and didn't have a clue that MGC pretended to be a feminist, are thinking now that she is the women's savior of today's world and they want a piece of her Dior.

I just love marketing. Humans are so s*lly.

 

[LadyJunon]

I think the fact that they are praising her so much it's actually gaining Dior some respect and buzz. I saw Tik Tok and Instagram and all the people that don't know a thing about fashion are fangirling about her and about the brand. This whole thing might get her last offerings some cult status (take it with a pinch of salt). The Dior store was packed yesterday, which is not usually the case as of late.

Also, some women that have no idea about feminism and didn't have a clue that MGC pretended to be a feminist, are thinking now that she is the women's savior of today's world and they want a piece of her Dior.

I just love marketing. Humans are so s*lly.

The funniest part is that all of it is just to fill a MAN'S pocket.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

The funniest part is that all of it is just to fill a MAN'S pocket.

Shut down the thread, that was a perfect end.