Maria Grazia Chiuri, artistic director of Dior’s girls’s high fashion, ready-to-wear and equipment collections, shall be honored by the Museum’s Haute Couture Council at FIT. She is going to obtain the 2022 Couture Council Award for the Artwork of Vogue at a luncheon on September 7 on the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Heart in New York.
Heralding the arrival of New York Vogue Week, the annual fall occasion advantages the Museum at FIT, New York’s solely museum devoted solely to the artwork of style. The primary sponsor is Nordstrom.
“I’m honored and excited that my work has been acknowledged with the celebrated Couture Council Award for the Artwork of Vogue,” stated Chiuri. “This award reinforces my conviction in regards to the significance right this moment of finishing a mission by which analysis, experimentation, know-how and dedication are our each day challenges.”
Chiuri is likely one of the style business’s most profitable designers, identified for her transformative inventive imaginative and prescient and genuine understanding of the wants of latest girls.
“Maria Grazia Chiuri believes that style is a elementary a part of life and due to this fact designs, with magnificence and charm, for girls of all sizes, all ages and all shapes,” stated Dr. Joyce F. Brown, president of FIT. “Her imaginative and prescient of her, that one may be each feminist and female, is mirrored in all of her collections. For aspiring designers, like FIT college students, she is an inspiration and we’re honored to acknowledge her work and her contributions to the world of style.”
Since becoming a member of Dior in 2016, Chiuri has emphasised common empowerment and unity by creating feminist-inspired collections that assist girls specific their true multifaceted id. Earlier than Dior, Chiuri labored for 17 years at Valentino, first as an equipment designer (after a profitable profession designing luggage at Fendi) after which as co-creative director. Amongst her achievements, she has been embellished on behalf of the President of the French Republic, with the insignia of Chevalier de l’Ordre Nationwide de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Nationwide Order of the Legion of Honour) by Marlene. Schiappa, French Secretary of State for Gender Equality. The award acknowledges her contribution to style and high fashion and to the status of France and Dior all through the world.
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“We’re proud to honor Maria Grazia Chiuri with the 2022 Haute Couture Council Award,” stated Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of FIT. “What [Chiuri] says: ‘While you’re a lady who makes garments for girls, style is not nearly the way you look; it is about how you’re feeling and the way you suppose.’”
Earlier Couture Council Award recipients embody Wes Gordon, Christian Louboutin, Narciso Rodriguez, Thom Brown, Albert Kriemler of Akris, Manolo Blahnik, Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, Karl Lagerfeld, Dries Van Noten , Isabel Toledo , Alber Elbaz and Ralph Rucci. In 2008, Giorgio Armani acquired a particular award for World Management in Vogue.
The Museum at FIT’s upcoming exhibition, “Dior + Balenciaga: Haute Couture Guys and Their Legacies,” shall be on view starting Wednesday.
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