Maria Grazia Chiuri joined DIOR in 2016 as the first female creative director in the brand’s 75-year history. Since then, she’s brought a radical, feminist edge to the house, from t-shirts emblazoned with quotes from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Linda Nochlin to collaborations with pioneering artists such as Judy Chicago.
Chiuri’s Book Tote, launched in 2018, was the result of a deep dive into the Dior archives, where she found inspiration in a drawing by Marc Bohan from 1967. The perfect shape for carrying a novel (or three), it’s a typically intellectual design from the creative director, whose office at Dior is reportedly lined with books on philosophy, literature and art.
