At Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri riffs on ruffs, history and gender-bending elegance

Dior’s Orlando-Inspired Collection Featured Bloomers & Elizabethan Collars

For Dior's Fall 2025 line, Maria Grazia Chiuri went back in time. Taking inspiration from Orlando, the latest ready-to-ear women's collection took cues from Elizabethan and Victorian eras, while also revisiting the heritage house’s own historical past.

At Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri riffs on ruffs, history and gender-bending elegance

The past and present collided in a dreamlike spectacle at Dior’s fall 2025 show in Paris, where Maria Grazia Chiuri riffed on ruffs—both literally and literarily.

Christian Dior’s Paris Fashion Week show was an ode to Virginia Woolf and gender fluidity

Maria Grazia Chiuri’s latest collection for Dior took inspiration from the1928 novel Orlando.

Rebecca Donaldson Takes Us BTS At Dior AW25

Taking inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s seminal classic Orlando and its gender-defying protagonist, Dior’s AW25 show at Paris Fashion Week was, once again, one for the books. Luckily, model Rebecca Donaldson took us behind the scenes as she prepared for the big evening in Paris—here’s what went down. Dior knows how to put on a show. And for its AW25, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri has done it again—taking over Paris by storm, under a blessed sun…

On March 4th (local time), Dior's 2025-26 Fall/Winter collection was held at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. Maria Grazia Chiuri said that it had been her dream to hold a show inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando." We look back on all 80 looks that incorporate the identity and traditional costumes of the protagonist, who lives for love and art beyond time and gender.

It is a legendary slot of Paris Fashion Week, jealously guarded by Dior: the first Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. sharp. If the schedule does not vary, Maria Grazia Chiuri orchestrates the metamorphosis of the world, between volcanic stone and pterodactyl, carried by a scenography by Robert Wilson.