On a rain-soaked Tuesday evening, May 27, the gates of Villa Albani Torlonia—an 18th-century Roman treasure typically closed to the public—opened for a singular event: the debut of Dior’s cruise 2026 collection, designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri. It marked the maison’s first full-scale show in Rome, and for Chiuri, who was born and raised in the Eternal City, it was a return not just to place, but to memory, imagination, and personal mythology.

The collection emerged from what Chiuri has described as a “bella confusione”—a beautiful confusion—inspired by the phrase once proposed by screenwriter Ennio Flaiano as the title for Federico Fellini’s 8½ . That spirit of creative entanglement infused the entire presentation, which blurred the boundaries between fashion and costume, history and fa

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