Hitting her mark

At Dior, Neapolitan artist SAGG Napoli performs archery for art’s sake.

Dan Thawley

During Maria Grazia Chiuri’s nine-year tenure at the house of Dior, the Italian designer has engaged with the work of esteemed female artists to help tell the stories imbued in her fashion collections and bring to life the spaces in which they are unveiled. Often, she’s commissioned embroidery from the Chanakya School in Mumbai, India – projects that have allowed the narratives of illustrators and painters like Isabella Ducrot, Mickalene Thomas and Judy Chicago to be writ large in giant handicraft panels, framing the Dior ready-towear or haute couture shows in colour and texture. Despite these interventions, rarely has a living artist taken centre stage in her productions in the way that London-based Neapolitan artist Sofia Ginevra Giannì (known as SAGG Napoli) did last September. Transforming a pavilion in the…

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Vogue Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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