For Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first cruise collection for Dior, the house created no less than a “Wizard of Oz” moment. Toto, we’re not in Los Angeles anymore.
Technically the show wasn’t in L.A. — it was in Calabasas, the tony suburb in the Valley with famous residents such as the Kardashians. But when guests arrived at the actual venue, shuttled by a military grade supply of SUVs up a dirt mountain road in the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, and then by a smaller fleet of Gators, they might have thought they were on safari in the desert hills. The only thing “Hollywood” about the location in the Santa Monica Mountains was that it resembled a big-budget movie set, strewn with retro trailers and modernist tents pitched around piles of pillows, benches and woven carpets. Waiters kept the Moët flowing. Two hot air balloons floating in the background bore the words “Dior Sauvage,” as did a sign erected on a hilltop yonder in a nod to the iconic Hollywood sign.
To see the celebrities in the front row, click here.
To see the scene backstage, click here.
“I was happy to find the location — it was not so easy,” said Chiuri in the understatement of
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