Celeste Sang Beneath Feminist Banners at the Dior Couture After-Show Dinner

Not too long after models—Dior goddesses, who were dressed in shimmering, billowing looks that called upon the draped-not-sewed peplos of ancient Greece and Rome—walked the spring couture 2020 runway, a resplendent dinner was set in the very same space.

The venue was the Musée Rodin, and inside, the catwalk was designed by famed American feminist artist Judy Chicago, who crafted a space that evoked a woman’s womb. Overhead were banners stitched with phrases that asked a series of questions: “Y aurait-il de la violence?” (“Would there be violence?”) and “La propriété privée existerait-elle?” (“Would private property exist?”). They ran down the cavernous room leading to the final banner that was emblazoned with “What if women ruled the world?” It was perhaps a rhetorical question to answer all the other questions—it would be a much better world indeed.

Attending the dinner were a lot of Dior-clad guests who had just sat in the first and second row. The likes of Camille Rowe, Alexa Chung, Haley Bennett, Tessa Thompson, and more found their seats in the room which was now dark, aglow with moody lighting and a bit of candlelight emanating from votives on the tables. It was a dinner spread as lush as the couture confections presented earlier. And like the show, the evening had a finale: a performance by British singer Celeste. She enraptured the crowd and even inspired a couple to slow dance. It was a lovely evening, as Dior and Maria Grazia Chiuri are known to put on, allowing, if just for one night only, women to rule the world.