A Dior runway show in Mumbai to celebrate India

The Paris-based luxury fashion house Christian Dior presents its fall 2023 collection at the iconic Gateway of India monument in Mumbai.

Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior creative director said that work relations and friendship linking her for many years to the Indian designer Karishma Swali, who directs the Chanakya ateliers and the Chanakya School of Craft, in Mumbai. Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of Dior said "Our creativity with the Chanakya Company and also the foundation and school is about our conversation on creativity and to explore and to also maintain the tradition in the future.

Also Dior is involved with this heritage. And what I do in Dior is to work with this reference and to move in the future. In Dior it was also very important embroidery too. We are working on this in the Chankaya foundation as well to maintain the incredible traditions that there are around the country.

And to promote this value for the future. We really want to explore the different techniques and also to create new techniques. This is very interesting, a creative conversation about this very important element of fashion, that is embroidery." India, now the world’s fifth-largest economy, has always been known for its intricate embroidery art, opulent textiles and embellishments.