Robert Wilson designed the scenography and staging for the Dior Women Ready-to-wear Winter 2025-2026 Collection. It was presented live in Paris at the Tuileries Garden on March 4, 2025.
“Maria Grazia asked me to stage the [Dior] fashion show, and we talked about it being loosely based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Orlando is a journey that takes us to foreign lands, landscapes of ice and landscapes of fire. I divided this work into five acts. I worked with sound, I worked with light. Light is what creates space. Light is what helps us hear and see. I am not trying to tell a story. It is something that we experience, with the freedom to think and dream.”
Robert Wilson and Maria Grazia Chiuri (Photograph: Laura Sciacovelli)
Robert Wilson’s Scenography for ONCE UPON A TIME - © Christian Dior Couture
“... the most mesmerizing show—or rather, performance—of the international runway season so far.”
VOGUE: “Dior Initiates a Dialogue Between Past and Present for Its Fall-Winter 2025-2026 Show” by Héloïse Salessy (French original version here)
Fashion Network: “Dior: Orlando in the Tuileries” by Godfrey Deeny
HERO Magazine: “Dior was a theatrical tribute to the house’s iconic 90s” by Barry Pierce
Teaser / RW Interview for ONCE UPON A TIME - © Christian Dior Couture