“Yves Saint Laurent: The Hamish Bowles Collection” runs through next January 4 at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech.

Look 36, a short black minidress with ruffles on the shoulder, was a kind of coda for the collection. It harked back to the time when Yves Saint Laurent designed his A-line collection for the house, following the death of Christian Dior. “I discovered that his idea for this collection was children’s clothes scaled up.”

Filled with punk mohawk headpieces made of feathers and bamboo cage skirts with trailing flowers and butterflies fashioned from organza, lace, and raffia, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior couture spring 2025 show offered a pure dose of fashion fantasy.

Dior’s Spring 2025 couture show explored the foundations of fashion and beauty. Maria Grazia Chiuri focussed on the bones of her craft and the archetypes of her maison.

The show unfolded in the picturesque gardens of the Musée Rodin in Paris, attended by guests including actress Jenna Ortega, the star of Netflix’s Wednesday, and Anya Taylor-Joy, known for her role in The Queen’s Gambit.

Haute Couture Week opened in Paris this week with Schiaparelli’s traditional show and what may have been Maria Grazia Chiuri’s final collection for Dior. Both fashion houses looked to the past for inspiration,

Just a week ago, Kim Jones marched out onto an ice rink-size runway in Paris, taking a bow at the conclusion of his latest show as the men’s creative director at Dior. That show would be his last. On Friday, Mr. Jones, a British fashion designer who has held that role since 2018, announced he was leaving the brand.

Paris Couture Week wrapped up in Paris this Thursday, with 29 fashion houses showing their collections. Here are all the highlights.

This and the week’s other couture collections were unveiled as luxury groups wrestle with a year-long spending slowdown, particularly acute among young consumers turned off by the recent hike in luxury prices.

The designer's inaugural couture show was about showing the full breadth of his arsenal of embellishments, his eye for color and the skills he's developed over the years.

Statement Pieces” marks the prestigious museum’s first foray into fashion, with a sprawling exhibition dedicated to the relationship between designers and art.

Maria Grazia Chiuri toyed with historic shapes and proportions in her most unabashedly romantic collection to date.