Dior's SS21 show was inspired by female intellectuals and authors, and livestreamed on TikTok

Dior staged one of the first in-person events of Paris Fashion Week today, with a physical runway show that was also livestreamed on TikTok.

Located in the Jardin des Tuilieres in Paris, the show was attended by a reduced guest list of celebrities, with Natalia Vodianova, Christine and the Queens, Maisie Williams, Christian Louboutin and Ellen von Unwerth all seated front row.

Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri cited the vibrant collages and provocative slogans of sixties-era feminist artist Lucia Marcucci as a key inspiration this season, enlisting the artist to create a series of immense stained glass window-esque lightboxes to punctuate the vast and dimly lit show venue, each seven metres high and composed of collaged images from art history magazines.

The clothes themselves were a bookish, boho meditation on functional fashion – with an emphasis on trousers and shirting atypical for Dior.