Outside the enormous box-shaped structure in the Tuileries, the line of spectators stretched to the Place de la Concorde, where royals were guillotined during the French Revolution. It was many bodies deep, and more onlookers stood on a nearby rise to watch guests arriving for Dior and the debut of Jonathan Anderson’s women’s collection . It was by far the largest crowd in recent memory.

Inside, Johnny Depp, wearing a gray suit coat, jeans, paint-stained clodhoppers, and a fedora, was chatting with Brigitte Macron, in a light-blue blazer and jeggings with stilettos, and Bernard Arnault, the chief of LVMH. Paris fashion shows tend to give you a false sense of familiarity — there’s Jennifer Lawrence, Anya Taylor-Joy — but because Dior had dramatically reduced the number of guests for the

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