Maria Grazia Chiuri has fought the good fight. She’s championed female artists, female photographers, ageism and, in a slightly more convoluted way , the female body.
She’s a feminist who was born into a society – Italy, early 1960s - that didn’t really talk about feminism.It just got on with it – or rather the millions of Italian matriarchs and women running their own business, just like Chiuri’s dressmaker mother – did.
Thanks to her 24-year-old daughter Rachele, who works with her at Dior, Chiuri, 57, has had her eyes opened to topics that are supposedly the preserve of millennials, but which of course touch us all: the environment, race, the way women are objectified.When I say the way her argument about body inclusivity is convoluted,.
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