With reverence for the storied maison, the Irish designer delivered a spring 2026 collection that remixed house codes for a new generation.

A photo of Christian Dior’s original salon stretched the width of the Invalides, the gold-domed palace where Napoleon is buried, offering a fish-eye view of the past to the throngs shrieking outside — and a sign of just where Dior believes it belongs in the pantheon of French power.