Haute Couture Week opened in Paris this week with Schiaparelli's traditional show and what may have been Maria Grazia Chiuri's final collection for Dior .

Maria Grazia Chiuri put her spin on the collection with punk rock elements, feminine silhouettes, and inspiration from Yves Saint Laurent's 1958 Dior debut

Dior celebrates youth and whimsy at Paris Haute Couture show - Pamela Anderson, Elizabeth Debicki and Jenna Ortega were among the A-listers sitting front row.

The show unfolded in the picturesque gardens of the Musée Rodin in Paris, attended by guests including actress Jenna Ortega, the star of Netflix’s Wednesday, and Anya Taylor-Joy, known for her role in The Queen’s Gambit.

Dior’s Spring 2025 couture show explored the foundations of fashion and beauty. Maria Grazia Chiuri focussed on the bones of her craft and the archetypes of her maison.

Filled with punk mohawk headpieces made of feathers and bamboo cage skirts with trailing flowers and butterflies fashioned from organza, lace, and raffia, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior couture spring 2025 show offered a pure dose of fashion fantasy.

Statement Pieces” marks the prestigious museum’s first foray into fashion, with a sprawling exhibition dedicated to the relationship between designers and art.

Maria Grazia Chiuri toyed with historic shapes and proportions in her most unabashedly romantic collection to date.

The Spring-Summer 2025 collection was inspired by "the creativity of past centuries" and was intended "to disrupt the order of time," according to the show notes

The designer's inaugural couture show was about showing the full breadth of his arsenal of embellishments, his eye for color and the skills he's developed over the years.

During Paris Couture Week, designers like Daniel Roseberry and Zuhair Murad presented collections inspired by past eras and escapism.

Nostalgia-tinged evening wear, fantasy-fuelled escapism and messages about world peace featured during a packed Paris Couture Week that also saw new changes on fashion's artistic director merry-go-round.