It's looking at how we used to dress, how we can dress, and the idea of style,” the designer tells GQ of his runway spectacle, which featured cargo shorts, Rihanna, and aughts sleaze.

A photo of Christian Dior’s original salon stretched the width of the Invalides, the gold-domed palace where Napoleon is buried, offering a fish-eye view of the past to the throngs shrieking outside — and a sign of just where Dior believes it belongs in the pantheon of French power.