From Lily Collins to Jennifer Lawrence: The Best Dressed Stars at Dior’s Highlands Show

Fashion editors are at this point well-accustomed to being flown out to exotic corners of the earth to get a first glimpse of the collections. Last season, for example, Chanel held its cruise presentation in Los Angeles, Gucci in Seoul and Carolina Herrera in Rio de Janeiro—which is to say nothing of Karl Lagerfeld’s million-dollar showcases, among them a “Chanelified” man-made island in Dubai in 2014 and an open-air catwalk in Havana, Cuba that chauffeured 600 guests into the Paseo del Prado in a fleet of vintage Chevrolets in 2017. But this season’s designers seem to be side-lining all this jet-setting extravagance in favour of hosting shows a little closer to their respective ateliers.

Not long after Gucci took over London’s Tate Modern and Louis Vuitton hosted in Barcelona’s Park Güell, Maria Grazia Chiuri last night staged Dior’s Cruise 2025 presentation in the grounds of Drummond Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. Testament to the house’s storied relationship with bonnie Scotland—Monsieur Dior laid on a number of shows in the same area during the ’50s—Chiuri collaborated with Johnstons of Elgin, Esk Cashmere, Robert Mackie and Le Kilt on a collection that bottled the defiant spirit of Mary Queen of Scots in plaid bar jackets, martial corsets, leather chokers, chainmail columns and wipe-clean puffball dresses emblazoned with embattled slogans, such as “nag”, “difficult” and “hysterical”.

Lily Collins.

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Alexa Chung.

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A battalion of well-known guests—including Jennifer Lawrence, Lily Collins, Alexa Chung and Maisie Williams—watched from the frontlines in Chiuri’s armorial designs. Rosamund Pike said, “It’s one of the most beautiful collections I’ve ever seen”, and I’d wager that Mary Queen of Scots – who arrived in Leith on 19 August 1561 with 159 items of Europe’s most precious jewels and gowns – would perhaps have felt the same. Scroll through the gallery below to see a handful of the most memorable front-row looks from Dior’s Cruise 2025 presentation.