If Cruise shows are a lesson in reminding the world of the heritage of a luxury house, Dior would have got an A* for its return to Scotland. In 1955, Christian Dior presented 172 models at a charity fundraiser in the ballroom at Gleneagles hotel. Today’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, had been planning to recreate that show in situ, but the brand is now too big for the Gleneagles ballroom – quite literally.
Some were printed with photographs of Christian Dior tweaking his 50’s Gleneagles ballgowns and uninvited guests in kilts peering through the windows – archive images that had also been printed onto a monochrome, floor-sweeping coat and Dior Book Tote.still sell in droves, had found a fierce woman to centre this collection around. Queen of both France and Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots was an obvious muse.