Look 36, a short black minidress with ruffles on the shoulder, was a kind of coda for the collection. It harked back to the time when Yves Saint Laurent designed his A-line collection for the house, following the death of Christian Dior. “I discovered that his idea for this collection was children’s clothes scaled up.”

Dior celebrates youth and whimsy at Paris Haute Couture show - Pamela Anderson, Elizabeth Debicki and Jenna Ortega were among the A-listers sitting front row.

Haute Couture Week opened in Paris this week with Schiaparelli’s traditional show and what may have been Maria Grazia Chiuri’s final collection for Dior. Both fashion houses looked to the past for inspiration,

Dior’s Spring 2025 couture show explored the foundations of fashion and beauty. Maria Grazia Chiuri focussed on the bones of her craft and the archetypes of her maison.

Filled with punk mohawk headpieces made of feathers and bamboo cage skirts with trailing flowers and butterflies fashioned from organza, lace, and raffia, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior couture spring 2025 show offered a pure dose of fashion fantasy.

Maria Grazia Chiuri put her spin on the collection with punk rock elements, feminine silhouettes, and inspiration from Yves Saint Laurent's 1958 Dior debut

Warrior princesses, Tudor queens and Victoria drama prevail in a divine display of opulence at Paris Couture Week

The show unfolded in the picturesque gardens of the Musée Rodin in Paris, attended by guests including actress Jenna Ortega, the star of Netflix’s Wednesday, and Anya Taylor-Joy, known for her role in The Queen’s Gambit.

For Dior's haute couture spring/summer 2025 runway, Maria Grazia Chiuri blurred the lines between dreams and reality.

Elizabeth Debicki, Pamela Anderson and Alexandra Daddario also came to Maria Grazia Chiuri's fanciful couture show.

Maria Grazia Chiuri toyed with historic shapes and proportions in her most unabashedly romantic collection to date.

The Spring-Summer 2025 collection was inspired by "the creativity of past centuries" and was intended "to disrupt the order of time," according to the show notes