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The pioneering Black performer Josephine Baker — who left the United States to find global fame in Paris in the 1920s — was Dior’s muse for an old school spring couture collection of archetypal classicism. Yet the event’s first day wasn’t without controversy after Dior was criticized for inviting a Russia influencer sanctioned by Ukraine. Rudkovskaya posted a photo of her Dior couture invitation on Instagram. Yet the collection was also reverential to the house founder whose unique brand of frivolity charmed audiences around the world. Cuffs were embellished in giant roses, which reappeared in another look above the shoulder as if to cushion the model’s head.
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