DIVINE INTERVENTION: Maria Grazia Chiuri has tapped feminist artist Judy Chicago to design the set of her spring haute couture present scheduled to take position at the Rodin Museum in Paris on Jan. 20 — and the basic public will have an opportunity to look at the installation, titled “The Female Divine,” from Jan. 21 to 26.

Chicago, 80, is ideal known for her Seventies installation “The Dinner Celebration,” which highlights the purpose of women of all ages in heritage and lifestyle by means of elaborate evening meal table spot options, devoted to figures ranging from Boadicea to Virginia Woolf, featuring hand-painted plates depicting elaborately stylized vulvas.

For the Dior clearly show, she has established an immersive room showcasing an oversize goddess figure, extending into a specifically woven catwalk carpet adorned with thousands of bouquets.

In addition, the artist — who has often utilised needlework in her projects — created 21 banners embroidered in English and French with questions this sort of as “What if females dominated the environment?” that have been manufactured at an embroidery school in India, as aspect of Dior’s efforts to aid woman college students in what is traditionally a male-dominated sector.

The set will also characteristic a table with particular dishware intended by Chicago for Dior Maison, the homewares brand that just lately opened its initial dedicated keep on Avenue Montaigne in Paris. It characteristics her trademark spiral and cowrie shell motifs, common symbols of the goddess.

Chiuri has produced activism a signature of her Dior tenure, setting up with the “We Should really All Be Feminists” T-shirt in her 1st demonstrate for the house in 2016, encouraged by Nigerian creator Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay of the very same title.

“Judy Chicago invitations us to reconsider the roles and electric power associations that decide, even though the lens of gender, the way we dwell jointly currently,” Dior mentioned in a assertion.