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Dior Couture Takes Inspiration From the Arcane World of Tarot
“In this moment, when we are very lost in our personal life, this idea – this magic – can help us to have hope for the future,” Maria Grazia Chiuri tells Alexander Fury of her Spring/Summer 2021 haute couture collection for Dior
January 27, 2021
Lead ImageDior Spring/Summer 2021 Haute CouturePhotography by Sophie Carre, courtesy of Dior
The tarot – an illustrated set of playing cards used, above all else, for the reading of fortunes and divination via cartomancy – was something
Dior. “I was fascinated by astrology,” she says, on Zoom from the house’s Parisian headquarters. “But I didn’t know about this magical world of tarot.” It was, of course, one that fascinated the superstitious Christian Dior, who consulted fortune-tellers constantly throughout his life, touching wood and searching for lucky stars. “He would go to the tarot readers every week,” Chiuri says.
1. Italian Humanism
Dante had an admiration for ancient letters. At first, he intended to compose his great epic in Latin verse. Petrarch considered his
Africa a fair effort to reproduce
Vergil. In the exordium of his chief work Petrarc h appeals to the Heliconian Sisters as well as to Jesus Christ, Savior of the world. He also reviews the epics of Homer (although he never learned Greek), Statius, and Lucan. He was overwhelmed with the friendships of many prestigous men of his day, a mong whom Cardinal Stephen Colonna was prominent. Petrarch is the pathfinder as well as the measure of the new movement. He idealized the classical world. His classicist consciousness and his Christian consciousness are revealed in his writings. Th e experiences of life constantly evoke in him classic parallels, reminiscences, associations. Julius Caesar, Papirius Cursor, are