No further performances this season.
«Mystery and fragility, mature awareness and the ability to dream»
Maria Grazia Chiuri, Creative Director of Women's Collections for Dior
I became acquainted with Sharon Eyal’s work through Carlo Fuortes when he was director of the Rome Opera.
Our collaboration began when I presented my collection dedicated to dance – the Spring-Summer 2019 ready-to-wear collection shown in Paris in September 2018. I am really fascinated by dance—it engages me in all its expressions. It is simultaneously a liberating act and one that demands great discipline.
From the very start, my partnership with Sharon was characterised by our shared views and intentions. From that moment on, we built a rapport of respect and friendship, which has grown over time as we got to know each other. This has led to a genuine, deep bond and has resulted in many other opportunities to work together, both to present some of my collections and for Sharon’s artistic projects. In her poetics there is a deep connection that unites mystery and fragility, mature awareness and the ability to dream. It was the movement between these extremes that drew me in, a movement sharpened through a beauty defined by many layers, many levels, which can become even disturbing, oblique, less pacifying than it is a cause for reflection. A beauty transformed by time and the intensity of emotions.
Just as I do in fashion, Sharon Eyal celebrates the body in all its strength and suppleness, building relationships and creating atmospheres. So for SAABA, Sharon’s project for the Göteborg Opera in Sweden, I designed skintight flesh-coloured jumpsuits, in which the consistency could almost give way and morph into Dior lace, and then into rips, tears, stretches, into an evanescent materiality that reflects the idea of a beauty both delicate and strong, imperfect and therefore poetic.
