Dior Cruise 2024 Collection: a Parisian tribute to a Mexican icon. Dior presented its Cruise 2024 Collection in Mexico. Channeling a modern-day Frida Kahlo universe, Maria Grazia Chiuri celebrates Mexican culture with a style that bends the rules of gender boundaries. The artist was known for wearing a men’s three-piece suit to claim an intellectual … Read more
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V&A, London
By focusing on Kahlo’s life and her suffering rather than her art, this memorabilia-stuffed exhibition stifles her blazing visionary brilliance
A new V&A exhibition examines the artist’s enduring image. But is fashion’s co-opting of her aesthetic reductive or true to her maverick spirit?
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