Dior Fall 2023

“Though this was officially the fall 2023 season, the collection shone with some remarkable embroidery of golden peacocks or tigers courtesy of Chanakya, a brilliant atelier and school of skilled artisans with whom Dior’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, has worked for three decades. “It’s the celebration of an art form. In France, we speak a lot about métiers d’art, and here in Bombay they do too, about their own unique métier d’art,” explained Chiuri in a pre-show briefing. Though several maharajas showed up for the fashion fete, curiously the biggest cheer of the night from thousands of fans outside the event was for Thai pop stars – Mile Phakphum Romsaithong and Nattawin Wattanagitiphat. Welcome to the new social media nomenklatura. A crowd of some 850 sat down on upholstered benches before the yellow basalt triumphal arch of the Gateway – built to celebrate King George V’s visit of 1911. But, covered for the night by Dior, with an almost psychedelic In