Dior’s Cruise 2021 collection was presented earlier this week, focusing on reinvention in a time of distance. Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri, chose to reconnect her creative passion with the Italian region of Puglia for this cruise show, which is a place she holds near and dear to her heart. The show was held on the Piazza del Duomo in the Italian city of Lecce. The narrative and creative conversations between Paris and Lecce began long before the coronavirus pandemic was even a thought. Because of this, Dior felt it was both essential and necessary to continue the collaborations with this city and its artisans, to support and showcase their talents more than ever before.
During this period, I sought to give collective efforts a new dimension. Despite the disadvantages of distance, bringing a different perspective to our daily lives has given us strength and imagination -Maria Grazia Chiuri
The 2021 Cruise collection highlights the priceless skills and creative talent of the artisans of the Puglia region. A press release for the show expressed the brand’s commitment to highlighting the region and its creative individuals, from photographers and artists to anthropologists and musicians, Dior called upon Puglia’s most talented individuals for this collection. The presentation went on, showcasing that beauty, emotion and poetry may endure all obstacles.
As for the handbags, the collection featured a mix of new silhouettes and updated classics like the Dior Book Tote and newly released Catherine Tote as well as the iconic Lady Dior and Dior Saddle. As was the creative inspiration behind the collection as a whole, the bags are said to take cues from Puglia, showcasing the region’s colors like a beige Dior Bobby, which is a new release from the brand, and totes blooming with colorful, local flowers. Most noteably, intricate and expertly designed leather versions of Dior icons were seen throughout. View bags from the collection below.
[images via Vogue]
I live in Colorado. I own this version in the Lady Dior. It in no way is similar to Cheep tourist bag other than some of the tooling . This bag is beautiful with cut outs and the leather is stunning . Even the tooling is so far beyond those cheep Western bags and by the way, Saddles , boots and saddlebags are crazy expensive when tooled by hand. Go into any Santa Fe boutique or western agricultural store and look at the hand tooling on boots and saddle equipment. There are boots here in Denver that sell for over ten thousand dollars. So there .
Gorgeous
Oh dear. Not liking any of these at all.
Nor I !
I love both bags in slide 2. The basket bag is so cute for summer, and the cutouts and studding on the book tote are gorgeous. I don’t like the tooled brown leather bags. I could find those from artisans on etsy or when traveling.
I love Dior, but I have never cared for leather engraved bags (or whatever the correct name is). They look cheap and a dime a dozen. Attaching the Dior logo doesn’t elevate the status of the bag, since it still looks cheap, and the dichotomy between the two is confusing.
I grew up in Texas and Colorado, and pretty much these look like literally everything you would get in a leather goods shop in….Texas and Colorado.
I grew up in Texas & Colorado, and this literally looks like everything you would find in any leather goods stores in those states. Generic & ubiquitous.
So true
My mother grew up in Western Colorado and you’re right but I still love the bags. They remind of a leather pouch that can be worn cross body made for my mother by an uncle (must be 80 years old). Its currently hanging in my bedroom as decor but I’ll have to get it out and where it because I know I can’t afford these Dior bags.
Yes, I live in Colorado and leather tooled bags are sold at many tourist sites. The last time I was at 7 Falls, in the Springs, the gift shop was full of them.
Except the Lady Dior, nothing else caught my eye…
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I’m not really feeling this new collection
Dior needs a designer that appreciates it’s elegant, sophisticated ethos.
This is not it.
I want to know the prices of your bags in Naira currency