Step beyond the pop up’s Victorian facade and you’re transported deep inside the digitally distorted world of modern Dior. With walls brought to life by large screens, the loft-like space becomes a shape-shifting kaleidoscope that captures the true spirit of Dior autumn/winter 15. “I wanted the feeling of a sensory overload in the collection,” Raf Simons described backstage. He delivered. The collection pulsed and prowled with a simmering, sinister sexuality and sensuality. Here, Simons’ reinterpretation of the animal print, first introduced by Christian Dior himself in 1947, play on loop to provide the perfect product backdrop. Simons referred the mutated and twisted animal prints as a “new kind of camouflage” for “a new species”. Well, Mount Street is their new natural habitat.
Season highs including latex boots with Lucite heels, jacquard body stockings and tweed tailoring, which are reflected and refracted by Hubert Le Gall’s Miroirs Gouttes and Guy De Rougemont’s Nuage table. Whether you’re a hungry Dior wild-thing or merely a weekend window shopper, there’s so much to covet and plenty of reasons to feel at home.