"There were two best actress Oscar winners in the audience (Mikey Madison, Charlize Theron) and the daughter of a third (Sunday Rose Kidman Urban) on the catwalk. There were so many K-pop stars that the teenagers of Paris had packed out the Tuileries gardens from dawn. The French first ladies Brigitte Macron and Carla Bruni, both embroiled in news-making storylines of their own, chatted in the front row."
"Nowhere is there more pressure to deliver a new look than at the house where, in 1947, Christian Dior's New Look collection invented the idea of fashion as news. The global sensation caused by those postwar hourglass suits, which changed the way women dressed, are the Dior origin story. And never has the pressure been more intense than 2025, when the 300bn global luxury industry luxury giant is battling a sharp downtown."
A headline Dior show at Paris fashion week drew global celebrities, K-pop stars and French first ladies to a spectacle staged around an upside-down glass pyramid evoking the Louvre. Jonathan Anderson made his debut as Dior's designer amid intense pressure to reinvent the historic house after Christian Dior's 1947 New Look defined modern couture. The luxury industry faced a sharp 2025 downturn, raising stakes for the show. Anderson opened with an Adam Curtis film, splicing mid-century couture, paparazzi chaos, horror imagery, Diana in couture and surreal designer moments to jolt fashion out of its slump.
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