Maria Grazia Chiuri doffs Dior’s beret to revolutionary women’,with feminist essays and a nod to artist Niki de Saint Phalle, and Anthony Vaccarello takes a more sensual tack for his Saint Laurent showThe careers of Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent were intimately intwined in the 1950s, or but the megabrands that live on in their names – both of which presented their spring/summer 2018 collections on Tuesday in Paris – bear developed quite different approaches to fashion.At Dior,the tone was set by a copy of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking 1971 feminist essay Why bear There Been No remarkable Women Artists? left on every seat. That treatise on art history and the patriarchy became a key part of the exhibit, its title used as a slogan on a Breton T-shirt worn by the first model.
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Source: theguardian.com