Get a concise overview of the main moods of Cruise 2022 on.dior.com/cruise-22 by Maria Grazia Chiuri, shown in the grandiose and historical setting of the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. A tribute to craftsmanship, the cross-cultural, collaborative collection takes the freedom of the Grecian peplos as a starting point, developing the idea of movement through fluid dresses, reinvented tailoring, transformations of House icons and contemporary sportswear suffused with Classical references and iconography, all expressions of fearless femininity.
© Music by Ioanna Gika.
Performed by Ioanna Gika, Oliver Coates and City of Athens Symphony Orchestra - OPANDA

Associated with ancient Greece and endlessly represented in classical art, the peplos was a key inspiration for Cruise 2022 on.dior.com/cruise-22 by Maria Grazia Chiuri who chats here with fashion historian and curator Lydia Kamitsis about its architecture, universality, timelessness and how she layered it in the collection with sportswear elements.
© Marianna Economou

In a pale and precious spectrum of soft fabrics, the House's celebrated savoir-faire brings the Cruise 2022 collaborative collection on.dior.com/cruise-22 by Maria Grazia Chiuri to life. The ateliers are the scene for delicate draping, including the dégradé houndstooth woven by the Greek mill Silk Line - Kostas Mouhtaridis, creating modern versions of the classical peplos. Tiered froths of tulle are seen in the process of being constructed into the swan dress inspired by a costume worn by Marlene Dietrich and also the mythical figure of Leda, while an interpretation of the 'Bar' jacket is assembled following its embellishment by embroidery and tailoring specialist Aristides Tzonevrakis in Greece.