It was impossible to tell the difference between the cruise and couture – beautiful, one and all. The weather added drama – a midnight sky, lightening and a sudden deluge – but it was impossible to look anywhere other than the goddesses on the catwalk.

PARIS (Reuters) -French fashion house Dior showed creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri's cruise 2026 and fall-winter haute couture 2026 collections at a fashion show in the gardens of the Villa Albani Torlonia in Rome on Tuesday at night.

On a rain-soaked Tuesday evening, May 27, the gates of Villa Albani Torlonia—an 18th-century Roman treasure typically closed to the public—opened for a singular event: the debut of Dior’s cruise 2026 collection,