Can Dior Be Cool?

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Courtesy of Hermes, Dior, Willy Chavarria

“I want Dior to be the pinnacle,” Jonathan Anderson said before his first collection for the house, a men’s show staged for a relatively small audience, about 600 people, in one of those imposing box-shaped tents. We were all seated on wooden blocks in a gray-washed room, Dior gray, that resembled a museum gallery; on the walls were two paintings by the 18th-century artist Jean Siméon Chardin, on loan from...