The Hammer House Horror-style film title that opened Jonathan Anderson’s Dior debut (one of many at Paris fashion week ) asked the audience, ‘Do you dare enter the house of Dior?’ But the question felt deeply personal, a glimpse into the designer’s own psyche as he confronts the weight of Dior’s legacy. The Adam Curtis-directed film, displayed on an inverted pyramid at the centre of the stage set, was less an introduction and more an exorcism – a frantic collage of archival clips assaulting the viewer. Here was Christian Dior himself then the ghosts of all previous creative directors that came after Dior, from Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, and Gianfranco Ferré to John Galliano, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri – all swirling together with footage from Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho in ci

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