The Hidden Feminist Message Behind Dior’s New Statement T-Shirt
Since she began her tenure at Dior and delivered the famous “We Should All Be Feminists” T-shirt, Maria Grazia Chiuri has often infused her work with a politically tinged message. In the past, these meditations on female power have added gravitas to Chiuri’s collections, but for Spring 2018, it served as a more concrete starting point. To open the show, Sasha Pivovarova went down the runway in a Breton-striped shirt that read Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, a direct reference to historian Linda Nochlin’s 1971 essay on patriarchy’s lasting effect on art.
