Dior’s Star-Studded LA Cruise Show Marks a New Era for the House

Jonathan Anderson unveiled his debut cruise collection for Dior in Los Angeles on Wednesday – an homage to the city’s unique influence on art, design and film. And it was the latest example of the Northern Irish couturier’s exceptional gift for storytelling.

In program notes written like a movie script, Anderson entitled the collection Wiltshire Boulevard, after the famed thoroughfare where this show was staged. A co-ed cast of models marched underneath the recently opened $724 million David Geffen Galleries by Pritzker-Prize winning Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, a giant concrete and glass neo-brutalist design built as part...