Maria Grazia Chiuri

Chiuri thinks it is important that fashion reflects female rights and the mood of the times

Maria Grazia Chiuri born 1964 Italy. Worked for Fendi in 1989. In1999 Valentino, in 2008 (with Pierpaolo Piccioli) Creative director at Valentino. Since 2016 Creative director at Dior. Known for her yougthful designs and big questions about gender, race, environment and cultures that have to reflect in fashion.

How the designer used fashion with a message to make a storied couture house relevant for a new generation — and helped turn it into a commercial juggernaut.

Maria Grazia Chiuri on Instagram: “Ph. @alique @voguegermany”

The creative director at one of France’s most venerable fashion houses invites us into her Italian home

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s feminist slogans, emblazoned onto Dior T-shirts, have proved one of the timeliest expressions of social protest in fashion history.

In Harper’s Bazaar‘s March issue, Dior’s new artistic director (a.k.a. the “new guard”) Maria Grazia Chiuri sits down with the glossy’s UK editor-in-chief Justine…

It’s only been nine months since the former Valentino co-creative director made her debut at the Musée Rodin during Paris Couture Week, and her impact on the 70-year-old house has been nothing short of transformational. Under Chiuri, the catwalk has become a platform for an ongoing conversation about feminism and the arts. This season, she paid tribute to two powerful women, constructing a showspace in the style of artist and former Dior model Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden in Tuscany…

The phantom of the fabled monarch, Mary, Queen of Scots is seen at Dior Cruise 2025 show, in the forms of Tudor-style details, and more.