NOVELIST, Chimamanda Adichie was part of the few invited guests who attended a ceremony where Dior Creative Director, Maria Grazia Chiuri was awarded the Légion d’honneur, France’s highest honour.
The award event, which held hours after the Dior show in Paris, had a reception in Chiuri’s honor at Dior’s Avenue Montaigne headquarters Paris where the French secretary of equality between women and men, Marlène Schiappa, presented Chiuri with the French Legion d’Honneur award.
Chiuri who is the first woman artistic director at Dior, thanked her fashion mentors; LVMH’sBernard Arnault, Sidney Toledano, and Pietro Beccari; her husband and children; and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose words “We should all be feminists” appeared in the designer’s first collection for Dior.
“I think the French government has made a very good choice,” Adichie said of the decision to give Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri the award. “Maria Grazia is a friend, and a woman I really respect. I think she shows courage and that she’s the real deal, to put it in very basic terms.”
Valentino Garavani, Alber Elbaz and Bianca Jagger, among others were some of the guests at the event. For Chiuri’s reception, Chimamanda wears shirt and pants by Nigerian fashion house, Orange Culture.
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