The Cruise 2026 season is in full swing. Maria Grazia Chiuri at Christian Dior, insisted on staging her latest for the fabled French fashion house within her hometown of Rome, Italy. Guests including Natalie Portman (dressed in a look straight off the runway), Rosamund Pike, and Ashley Park flocked to the Italian city for the occasion. Set amongst the gardens at Villa Albani Torlonia, the theatrical show took inspiration from the Italian arts patron Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Maria Grazia Chiuri (whose departure as creative director is allegedly imminent) presented a lineup of vintage lace, antique gauze ruffled gowns, military jackets, velvet mini dresses, and strict satin tailoring. The collection featured both ready-to-wear looks and haute couture pieces.

Christian Dior Cruise 2026 Collection Review Read below the reactions of theFashionSpot’s forum members:

“It’s essentially just a film with a runway finale at the end.” [LadyJunon]

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“BYE MARY-GRACE!! Instead of a swan-song, it´s more like a groundhog-song (as boring, repetitive and sleep inducing as always).” [jeanclaude]

“It’s not bad, It’s not ugly, It’s just sinfully boring to death.” [PDFSD]

“An ocean of banality.” [theshadedgaze]

“Everybody knows that I hate was she does and that her being CD at Dior is way worse than Lilo at Ungaro for me (way worse), but it might be her best collection ever. Considering how sloppy, plain and lazy her style is, it looks that she put a little bit more effort and some of it was even sophisticated, a word I would never use to describe her pieces.” [Creative]

“Not gonna lie, I like some looks.” [NoInvite]

“Well I had goosebumps! This was the first time that I felt an emotion in something that MGC did for Dior. The clothes were ethereal and perfect and the fact that you could see the details makes it more beautiful. It definitely looked like a swansong. Maybe I’m biased by that and I wanna be kind to her, but I really liked it.” [carla56]

See all the looks from the Christian Dior Cruise 2026 collection and join the conversation, here.