In Scotland, Dior’s rebel queen writes her own legend in an exclusive cruise fashion show

Scotland, a land of legends, poetic ghosts, phantasmagoric landscapes covered with heather, romantic coves, misty cliffs… A jewel that has become the new 2025 cruise collection from the House of Dior, which this year takes us to Dior. gateway to the Highlands, Perthshire, an hour and a half from Edinburgh.

An affinity with the country that began with the fall-winter 1947 fashion show, for which Christian Dior named one of his haute couture ensembles after Scotland. The founder of the house later continued to forge connections with this powerful, mysterious land, even writing: “I had heard so much about her beauty that I was afraid of being disappointed. On the contrary, the beauty of the country, the castles and the castles amazed me more than I could have imagined.’ In 1951, the designer then presented his spring-summer collection in Perthshire, and in 1955 he staged a 172-model Dior fashion show at a charity ball jointly presented at the Gleneagles Hotel and Glasgow’s Central Hotel. Finally, in 1960, Christian Dior London looks, the house’s English subsidiary, were staged at the legendary Scone Palace.

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

After more than half a century, Dior femme artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri also returns to magnify the magic of this area rich in history. But in the land of tartans, bagpipes and Nessie, the Loch Ness monster favored by tourists, he chose another local figure: a powerful heroine with a dramatic destiny: Mary Stuart, the legendary Queen of Scots. Monday evening at 20.00 when the sun sets. Dior’s magic has even worked on the Scottish weather, with guests arriving in the sumptuous French gardens of the enchanting Drummond Castle in Perthshire, where geometry and symmetry reign supreme. groves and flower gardens dotted with sculptures. An exclusive cinematic environment that was also used in the filming of the movie Rob Roy (Scotland’s Robin Hood, played by Liam Neeson) and the series Outlander:.

Front row, Laetitia Casta, Camille Cottin, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jennifer Lawrence, Lily Collins, haughty Beatrice Borromeo, Annabelle Wallis… sit on tartan-covered benches. Ex-Spice Girls Geri Halliwell heightens the tension, the sublime Rosamund Pike as the crazy lady. salt burn also, while Maisie Williams, Arya Stark, i Game Of Thronesperfectly honors the spirit of the place.

Tartan as a common thread

The melancholy voice of the bagpiper opens the parade. Marie Stewart may return to haunt the gardens, and she comes majestically in a shawl, belted and wrapped around her shoulders, biker boots on her feet, her neck encircled by a unicorn and white pearl embellished black leather. ; A non-folkloric Queen of Scots, she’s dramatic, romantic, sensual, powerful and… punk. Her aristocratic wardrobe as a modern queen uses tartan in all its forms: a long skirt, a jacket, a mini dress, an embroidered bodice in lichen green, lip yellow, red, black and purple, her long braided hair is decorated with golden metal spikes. and black leather biker opera gloves adorn it to better protect it from militant insults.

Lace collars set off the dramatic black, Scottish symbols around the Unicorn and thistle, the Millefleurs pattern, are carried over into heraldic embroidery, and the bar jacket features black velvet frogs. It has Stella Tennant in it (a gorgeous aristocratic top model who died tragically in 2020 who lived in Scotland) and she resonates with all the struggles of the past and the future.

A warrior’s romance

As in her previous cruise collections, Maria Grazia Chiuri chose to collaborate with local designers and artisans. With the famous Harris Tweed weavers of the Hebridean archipelago, in particular British Samantha McCoach, creator of the Le Kilt label, bringing this traditional garment into the 21st century. Among the modern pieces, jacket, shirt shorts, peacocks, denim jacket and pearl embroidered jeans, faux fur with puff sleeves and gathered skirts, luxurious long chalaine dresses in black velvet with white lace protective beading. the armor also slips everywhere (air mesh “chain mail” style, corset with embroidered messages). High diamond stockings, thigh-high boots and unclogged rain boots also mark the steps of this charismatic queen whose strength and poetic grace will always triumph over tragic fate.