Dior has brought a slice of Paris to China with four pop-ups inspired by its Jonathan Anderson-designed 2026 women’s runway show at the Tuileries in Paris, turning busy shopping malls into open-air runway sets.
Dubbed “Parisian Gardens”, the pop-ups appeared in several locations at once — the Southern District of Beijing‘s Sanlitun, the East Plaza of Shenzhen Bay’s MixC shopping mall, as well as MixC malls in Xiamen and Shenyang, both second-tier cities.
The historic Tuileries, first commissioned by Catherine de’ Medici and later redesigned under Louis XIV, has long been seen as an open-air theater celebrating “the art of seeing and being seen,” Dior said in a statement. Now that truly Parisian experience has been translated into a retail one, which will run into the fall.
Dior pop-up in China
As if invited to revisit the runway show space, visitors can walk over a pond dotted with water lilies, a reference to the Grand Bassin Octogonal that formed the centerpiece of the runway set in Paris. Around the pond, Dior installed tall trees, French-style flowerbeds and green metal structures echoing the emblematic garden chairs, on which shoppers can sit and people-watch.
