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Image courtesy of Dior

Maria Grazia Chiuri is taking the Big Apple for DIOR’s Pre-Fall 2024 runway presentation this week.

Eternal style muse Marlene Dietrich features prominently in teasers shared by the French luxury house. The German-American actress, known for her femme fatale look, was a force in Hollywood and beyond. A pioneering spirit with her liberal politics, she often subverted dressing conventions by favouring styles of the early 1900s and menswear, demonstrating a duality in fashion that few else had.

Following on from its nostalgic Fall/Winter 2024 show at Paris Fashion Week earlier this year, the upcoming runway will be hosted at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park, New York. According to an official statement, the presentation is set to be a “spellbinding défilé” that is inspired by “the founding couturier’s passion for the fascinating American metropolis.”

In the leadup to the show, the house shared a slew of images from Dietrich’s collection, filled with DIOR codes like cinched-waist jackets and architectural gowns reminiscent of the New Look.

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© Lea Wormsbach / © 2024 M. Dietrich Inc. All Rights Reserved © Deutsche Kinemathek – Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin, Image courtesy of DIOR
© Lea Wormsbach / © 2024 M. Dietrich Inc. All Rights Reserved © Deutsche Kinemathek – Marlene Dietrich Collection Berlin, Image courtesy of DIOR

The Dior Pre-Fall 2024 collection presentation will take place on Monday, April 15th, at 8 pm in New York (Tuesday, April 16th, at 10 am AEST) and can be watched below.