Christian Dior

The house’s founding moment is still fashion’s most famous debut: the 1947 “Corolle” line, christened the New Look by Harper’s Bazaar’s Carmel Snow, whose nipped waists and extravagant skirts re-dressed a rationed world overnight. The creative lineage since reads like a history of the industry itself — Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Chiuri, whose decade made Dior an explicitly feminist project and a commercial juggernaut.

As the flagship couture house of LVMH, Dior operates at a scale few maisons can match — ateliers on Avenue Montaigne, a global retail empire, and beauty franchises like Miss Dior and J’adore that carry the name far beyond the runway. Anderson arrives from a celebrated Loewe tenure with the widest mandate in the house’s history, and every season under the unified role is read as a referendum on where the biggest name in French luxury goes next.