COLLABORATIONS
Deliberately disproportionate to the body of an average human, the 23 dresses featured in ‘Big Aura’ are created using traditional hand-weaving, hand block-printing, and basket-weaving techniques. The dresses are layered by Chanakya’s artisans using ancestral hand embroidery techniques like badla: where a flat a flat metal thread is applied on the surface using a small embroidery needle; and tasseling, where organic tassels made of mohair wool are applied onto some of the dresses.
Special blocks are used in this process and subsequently refined through intricate hand-painting techniques. The resulting organic flow of lines, a signature element of Ducrot’s artistic style, gives rise to a monumental grid, drawing inspiration from the interwoven nature of warp and weft. These elements intersect, becoming a realm of boundless possibilities.
CSC x ISABELLA DUCROT for
CHRISTIAN DIOR
Deliberately disproportionate to the body of an average human, the 23 dresses featured in ‘Big Aura’ are created using traditional hand-weaving, hand block-printing, and basket-weaving techniques. The dresses are layered by Chanakya’s artisans using ancestral hand embroidery techniques like badla: where a flat a flat metal thread is applied on the surface using a small embroidery needle; and tasseling, where organic tassels made of mohair wool are applied onto some of the dresses.
Special blocks are used in this process and subsequently refined through intricate hand-painting techniques. The resulting organic flow of lines, a signature element of Ducrot’s artistic style, gives rise to a monumental grid, drawing inspiration from the interwoven nature of warp and weft. These elements intersect, becoming a realm of boundless possibilities.
MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF DIOR’S
WOMEN’S COLLECTIONS
