"An invitation to continually push the boundaries of creativity in the name of passion and freedom."
Surfing champ Carissa Moore, the smiling Hawaiian girl with the hip swivels, hand stands, all the herky-jerky including an Olympic gold medal from Tokyo, and the the best thing since Kelly Slater was baptised, was signed a few months back by Dior to be one of its fifteen Olympic ambassadors.
Carissa’s manager told BeachGrit in January, “As the only surfer in the world to have attained multiple World Titles plus an Olympic Gold Medal, there isn’t a surfer alive who can lay claim to this unparalleled level of achievement.”
Now, Dior has released first photos of Carissa Moore, along with fourteen other Olympic athletes which also includes Jamaica’s five-time Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah, U.S. soccer player Alex Morgan and Australia’s most decorated Olympian Emma McKeon, who has a stack of eleven medals in her treasure chest.
As you might already guess, Carissa Moore, with those eyes like ripe olives and the smile of someone who has gingerbread baking in the oven, is the belle of this particular ball.
We see the thirty one year old, limber as Haitian dancer, riding a billowing wave of hyacinth dyed silk, her surfboard a giant pair of scissors and dressed in Dior’s D-Unit boots, $2850, and a $6500 hooded anorak, cut in a technical taffeta jacquard, which forms part of Maria Grazia Chiuri’s soon-to-be-iconic collection.
The portraits of will go on show at Le Café Dior in La Galerie Dior at their in Paris from July 24 to Sept. 9.
“The exhibition is a celebration of surpassing performance and an invitation to continually push the boundaries of creativity in the name of passion and freedom,” Dior said.
Here, from earlier this year, Chas Smith reacts to Carissa, and Stephanie Gilmore’s, sudden retirement.
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Wow. That’s the most corny thing Ive ever seen. Art director should fuck off.
CM taking an L like this. How cringe. She better be buying a fat house in Pupukea for such fuckery.
I hate Surfing.
so I guess it’s safe to say the new V0lcom golfing attire, was NOT the peak of a culture being shredded to bits…
Hey Dior, Chopes is a left
Also, what are we snipping here?? Subliminal homage to the neutering of the male world champ when faced with heaving left barrels?
This immediately came to mind
https://youtu.be/t6-vb20srZ…
Her husband is a lucky man. How could you be unhappy waking up next to her every day. Oh babe good morning I made you coffee. Enjoy it in bed. Pineapple pancakes will be done in a bit. Love you. xoxox
Why not just create a portrait of her, standing there wearing the outfit and maybe put the blue drape thing in the background? Instead they go for lamest possible surfboard scissors cliche? TF, they kooked it. If I was Riss’s manager I would have never signed off on this dumb assed stunt, I mean give her some respect as a woman athlete for pity’s sake. Boo Dior.
Hopefully Riss doesn’t have to talk, that baby voice is brutal
I just want to know what that melon weighs….has to be a challenge to keep it up. Look at those neck muscles.
Bert Newton would be proud.
Carissors Mior
Carissa is the antithesis of an angry urban coke where. Dior photographers had no idea what to do with her.
Throw it away?
how in the fuck has dior managed to make a promo image that looks like a 12 year olds school photoshop project?
All they ever think about is children.
Oh, I’m sure they also think about non-extradition countries and rapid data destruction software, in periods of post-nut clarity.
Otherwise, children.
Tubes Bar Kuta circa 1990
Some wicked eyes in that drapery.
Respectfully disagree Ryan because I dig it! Simple, clever, graphic. And because of Carissa’s bonafides the “standing in the fake wave down on the boardwalk” aspect is less lame and more a toying with kitsch.
I might pay for a poster-sized low-numbered edition to hang in my powder room.
I’ll add the fact that it is terribly executed by the designer then.
I looked at the photog’s other work and it’s quite uninteresting. You might have the right take 🙂
How would you clean the pearl jam off a $6000 bit of rag?
Surf powder?
No prizes for second,
Cunt
but there’s still $80,000 USD in Finals Day Prize money for 2nd
Mediocre: Carissa Moore’s eyes are big and brown and she’s always smiling.
Masterful: Carissa Moore, with those eyes like ripe olives and the smile of someone who has gingerbread baking in the oven…
Only A Surfer Knows The Shearing