Dior unveils a behind-the-scenes look at its 2025 cruise show in a spellbinding documentary entitled Dior in Scotland. For this collection, presented in June 2024 in the sumptuous Drummond Castle gardens, Maria Grazia Chiuri celebrated Scotland’s fascinating textile heritage by instigating a series of collaborations sealing the ties that Monsieur Dior had forged with the country since the very beginnings of the House.
Thanks to exclusive footage revealing the genesis of this unique event, the film traces the entire artistic process of the Creative Director, from the initial inspirations captured during an enthralling immersion in Dior’s Parisian Archives to the defilé itself, spurred by an incredible collective energy, via the captivating exchanges with Scottish artisans. A synergy of excellence fusing the infinitely meticulous gestures of the Dior ateliers and a plurality of exceptional savoir-faire revisiting traditional kilts and tartans.
This journey between eras and regions is illuminated by the brilliant feminist historian Clare Hunter and her essay Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power* which explores, notably through the prism of embroidery, the destiny of Mary Stuart – a sovereign figure whose resilience is the Ariadne’s thread of the cruise line. Under the pure blue skies of this land, Maria Grazia Chiuri made Scotland’s patrimony shine forth more than ever, emphasizing the importance and boundless diversity of its ancestral culture: from Harris Tweed Hebrides to Johnstons of Elgin, as well as the artist Pollyanna Johnson and the founders of the brand Le Kilt, Samantha McCoach and her grandmother. These outstandingly woven dialogues gave life to virtuoso Dior silhouettes.