Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri: Women in fashion: Crafting feminisms

Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director at the House of Christian Dior, talks about her current role working for the French luxury brand. She reflects on how passionate she is about highlighting and promoting women’s multifaceted manifestations of work, image and creativity. Chiuri also discusses her long career in fashion, starting with her mother’s atelier, her studies at the European Institute of Design and then her work for the Fendi sisters and Valentino, both located in Rome, where she was born. Chiuri stresses certain books have been crucial for her, from Ngozi’s recent bestseller , to Clare Hunter’s Threads of Life (2019) and classical texts by Simone de Beauvoir, as well as Robin Morgan’s . In addition, she emphasizes how beneficial it has been to be able to immerse herself in Dior’s rich archive. She finds inspiration in the history of women, fashion, feminism, the arts, cinema and how all these institutions promote necessary changes to the fashion industry of the twenty-first century.