In a temporal paradox, Maria Grazia Chiuri moves free as ever with the mirrors – similar to Alice’s looking glass – allowing access to another reality, dominated by constant mutations of meaning. Notably inspired by the Trapèze line conceived for Dior in 1958 by the young Yves Saint Laurent, the Creative Director created a series of unpredictable encounters in wonderland where time and space interplay during this constantly changing time of fashion. The resulting Spring-Summer 2025 Haute Couture collection comes as an opportunity to reawaken essential themes on sartorial memory – particularly the creativity of previous centuries. As it disrupts the order of time, it takes us back to a dimension that belongs neither to the past nor the future but to fashion itself. Here, an idea of transformation associated with it comes to life.

The consequently created interplay of contrasts offers Dior women a chance to be a flower with a cape of petals or a short dress showing off the corolla of a curvy bust, or a bird and accomplice to the headpiece that exposes a punk Mohican reaching for the sky. And with the reinvented Cigale silhouette – designed by Monsieur Dior for the autumn-winter 1952-1953 haute couture line – the captivating black magnifying the coats, which orchestrate and underline the choreography of minute motions, the long dress shining supremely with its three-dimensional burnished silver embroidery, and everything in between, the elements seem suspended in the perpetual temporality of fashion, the essence of which is to fulfill desires of all kinds.