Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection

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At the Dior haute couture show in Paris, each room decked in flowers, an organza gown with thousands of bits of chiffon.

Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection

In almost every one of the 54 outfits, in the purposeful use of craft, Mr. Simons made a link to the modernity that Christian Dior brought to fashion right after World War II.