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Under a flutter of camera flashes announcing the front row arrivals of Rihanna,Jennifer Lawrence, and Kate Moss at Dior this morning, one may not have immediately noticed that the show’s true guest of honor had arrived. Quietly slipping past photographers, leading African author and modern feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie took her front row perch alongside fashion power players.
She, after all, deserved the perfect vantage point to see Maria Grazia Chiuri’s debut female-empowered designs for which she is very much the inspiration. The brand’s first female creative director in its 70 years sent her models gliding down the wood-planked runway to the sound of the Nigerian writer’s rousing manifesto We Should All Be Feminists as they sported T-shirts that proclaimed the righteous statement.
