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.

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Leave it to Jonathan Anderson to launch a definitive new era of Dior with a pair of cargo shorts. Of course, these were not just any cargo shorts. They were closer to couture, made of 15 meters of cotton drill fabric,