Christian Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri presented a lineup of ruffled styles for the French fashion house's fall-winter runway show on Tuesday, set to a dramatic backdrop of fiery meteorites,

Inspired by Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s time- and gender-traveling protagonist, the ready-to-wear collection spun historical silhouettes into a vision of fluid, ever-evolving femininity. If this is indeed one of Chiuri’s last collections, as rumors suggest, she’s leaving on a high.

The intersection of history, gender and imagination took centre stage at Dior’s autumn/winter 2025 show during Paris Fashion Week, where creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri delivered a collection steeped in literary and historical references.