Overview

• Chiuri announced her departure on May 29 after leading Dior’s women’s collections since 2016.
• Her final Cruise 2026 collection premiered at Villa Albani Torlonia in Rome on May 27.
• As Dior’s first female creative director, she embedded feminist themes into fashion with pieces like the “We should all be feminists” t-shirt.
• Her collaborations with feminist artists and thinkers such as Judy Chicago and Tomaso Binga broadened the brand’s cultural relevance.
• Dior credited her leadership with contributing to a near quadrupling of revenue between 2018 and 2023.