COUTURE Diplomacy Designer MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI hasn't just TRANSFORMED DIOR in her SIX YEARS at the French house. She has swung open its doors to CELEBRATE ARTISTS and ARTISANS all over the world--and, perhaps most important, the WOMEN who WEAR her CLOTHES

Last March, shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Kyiv-based artist Olesia Trofymenko received a message from a curator friend of hers, Solomia Savchuk. Dior, the bastion of French couture [...]