Today in Paris, Jonathan Anderson opened the Dior show — his first women’s ready-to-wear collection for the house — with a short video by the British television journalist Adam Curtis. Curtis has been making films for more than 30 years, often dealing with politics and the effects of mass culture, and is perhaps best known for the 2021 six-part film Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World. He once described our perceptions as fragments: “That’s how people think now. They make associations, and there’s no meaning. That’s the world we live in.”

The Dior video is a brief kaleidoscopic history of the brand, and more, it’s also an unfiltered view of the spectacle and devouring creatures around it — editors, celebrities, corporate bosses. It’s a world that is

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