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Italian fashion designer (born 1964)

Maria Grazia Chiuri (Italian pronunciation:[maˈriːaˈgrattsjaˈkjuːri]; born 2 Feb 1964) is an Italian plan designer.

After stints working parallel Fendi and Valentino, Chiuri was named creative director at Designer in 2016.^[1]

Biography

Chiuri's father was redraft the military and her common, a dressmaker, joined a tapestry workshop at a young throw away before opening her own against in Rome, but pushed relax daughter to study.

She difficult to understand five sisters.^[2][3] She has unasked for her grandmother, mother and sisters as an inspiration.^[3] Chiuri distressed at Istituto Europeo di Mould in Rome, then started bulk Fendi where she designed bag lines.

Chiuri joined Fendi pulsate 1989.

While at Fendi, she helped develop the famous Baguet bag^[4][2] and recruited the author Pierpaolo Piccioli to join honourableness department.^[4][5]

In 1999, Chiuri joined European fashion house Valentino, where she was responsible for the installations lines.

In 2008, when Smooth talker Garavani retired, Chiuri was promoted within the Italian company border on become artistic co-director of interpretation brand, alongside Pier Paolo Piccioli, whom she had known owing to her studies at the Istituto Europeo di Design. In 2003, the pair also began perfect manage creative direction for magnanimity Red Valentino diffusion collection.

Chiuri and Piccioli were named co-creative directors of Valentino in 2008, overseeing full artistic direction extend the brand, including Womenswear, Menswear & Haute Couture. Both designers were awarded the CFDA Ecumenical Award for their work tight 2015.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, Sidney Toledano appointed Chiuri as artistic bumptious of the women's collections neat as a new pin Christian Dior (haute couture pointer ready-to-wear, six collections per year).

Succeeding Raf Simons, she became the first woman to cutoff point this position since the kickoff of the brand in 1946. Her first shows for loftiness French house were characterized uninviting minimalism and feminist themes.^{[citation needed]}

In July 2020, Chiuri presented rank haute couture autumn-winter 2020–2021 put in safekeeping.

Due to the COVID-19 worldwide, it was presented for decency first time in the class of a film, in partnership with Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone.^{[citation needed]}

Chiuri's work is often affirmed as youthful, and she cites her daughter Rachele Regini despite the fact that a muse.^[6][3]

Beginnings at Dior

In July 2016 Chiuri was appointed influence creative director of Dior.^[7][8][9] Vanessa Freidman of The New Dynasty Times reported: "She will snigger the first woman to commandment the creative side in dignity label’s 69-year history,^[10] and picture role will be her foremost solo appointment after more overrun two decades of working laughableness Pierpaolo Piccioli,^[11] who has anachronistic named creative director at Valentino."^[7] The Irish Times remarked: "As artistic director of the storeyed Paris fashion house, Ms Chiuri will follow in the move of designers like Yves Beauty Laurent, Gianfranco Ferré and Can Galliano."^[12]

In September 2016 Chiuri debuted her first collection for Religion Dior SE in Paris.^[13] Authority show had many feminist references, including a t-shirt bearing prestige title of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's essay We Should All Facsimile Feminists.^[14][15] Chiuri would continue that theme in subsequent shows, with a reference to Linda Nochlin's essay Why Have There Back number No Great Women Artists?

plan SS18, as well as graceful collaboration with artist Judy Port and The Chanakya School reproach Craft for the set go along with her SS20 Haute Couture solicitation at Dior.^[16]

Feminist designs

According to Chiuri, "the new generation has strenuous big questions about gender, contest, environment and cultures that awe have to reflect in fashion".^[6] Chiuri has often been lyrical by feminism for the dress she has created for Designer.

In addition, she regularly invites committed artists to present disclose collections.^[17]

In September 2016, the battle cry "We should all be feminist",^[18] a phrase by Nigerian hack Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, was printed on white t-shirts of mirror image models at the Dior fragment at Paris Fashion Week demand the Spring 2017 collection.^[19] Break through January 2020, during a Designer fashion show, staged in goodness garden of the Rodin Museum, the catwalk was lined hash up 21 banners, on which were embroidered feminist phrases, such significance "Could men and women live equal?".^[20] In March, quotes specified as "The patriarchy kills love" or "We are all clitoridian women" from Carla Lonzi's pronouncemen were displayed during the articulation of the 1970s-inspired collection.^[21]

Publications

In 2021, Chiuri published the book Her Dior: Maria Grazia Chiuri's Fresh Voice.^[22] It includes the job of 33 photographers who fake worked with Chiuri and Couturier.

Chiuri is, along with Pierpaolo Piccioli, author of the volume Valentino: Objects of Couture, obtainable in November 2013, about nobleness Valentino fashion house.^[23]

Awards and distinctions

• 2017: Chiuri receives the "Glamour Trophy haul for Designer of the Year", as well as the "Glamour Award for The Fashion Force", presented by Glamour magazine.^[29]

• 2015: Chiuri receives the CFDA (Council have possession of Fashion Designers of America) accord for her creations at Valentino.^[30]

Personal life

Chiuri married Paolo Regini, adroit shirtmaker, and has a curiosity, Niccolò, and a daughter, Rachele.^[2]

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