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For what would turn out to be his final show as creative director of Dior, Raf Simons, on October 2, turned the Louvre's palace courtyard into a fragrant blooming peak. Landscape artist Eric Chauvin spent 18 days culling enough delphinium blossoms and soil to create the biodynamic set for the Paris Fashion Week outing.

Guests arriving at the Grand Palais entered a venue composed of soaring opaque walls that heralded the start of a fashion adventure that would be unlike any airport check-in.