La Galerie Dior opens free for three days to celebrate Christian Dior’s love of gardens
Three days to step through a door the general public almost never gets to open: from 16 to 18 October 2026, La Galerie Dior welcomes visitors free of charge as part of the LVMH Journées Particulières, with a programme entirely devoted to the relationship between nature and the House of Christian Dior.
The Journées Particulières 2026: when luxury opens its doors
Since their launch in 2011, the Journées Particulières have become a rare fixture in the world of luxury. The premise is simple: show what happens behind the shopfronts. For this 6th edition, held under the theme “Aux Racines du Rêve”, the LVMH group brings together 46 Houses across 69 venues in 12 countries. For three days, workshops, manufacturing sites, iconic boutiques and heritage spaces open their doors to the public, entirely free of charge.
The format grants access to spaces that are ordinarily reserved for industry professionals or private clients. For visitors, it is a genuine opportunity to watch the people who cut, assemble, embroider and shape the pieces that have built these Houses’ reputations.
La Galerie Dior and Christian Dior’s passion for gardens
At the heart of this edition, La Galerie Dior offers a programme centred on a side of the couturier that is often overlooked: his deep attachment to nature. Christian Dior was passionate about flowers and gardens, and this love of the natural world fed his work from the very beginning. His sources of inspiration included Granville, Milly-la-Forêt and La Colle Noire, three places that shaped his relationship with botany and the changing seasons.
From his very first show, presented on 12 February 1947 at 30 avenue Montaigne, this living herbarium began to infuse the collections. Ever since, flowers and gardens have run like a thread through the House’s creations, from one generation to the next. The gallery brings this continuity to life, setting the founder’s botanical imagination in dialogue with the pieces and the craft gestures that define Dior Haute Couture.
What visitors will discover at 11 rue François Ier
Located at 11 rue François Ier in Paris, La Galerie Dior has designed a visit for the Journées Particulières built around three complementary threads. First, Christian Dior’s personal passion for gardens, traced through the places that shaped his creative imagination. Then, the House’s creations, presented in the light of that botanical heritage. Finally, a focus on the savoir-faire of Haute Couture, the precise, painstaking gestures that transform an idea into a gown.
- Free entry throughout the three days of the event
- A programme dedicated to the links between nature and the world of Christian Dior
- Focus on Haute Couture savoir-faire
- Iconic pieces from the House presented in context
- Venue: La Galerie Dior, 11 rue François Ier, Paris
This format of visit makes it possible to understand how one man’s intimate passion, his love of gardens, became the foundation of an aesthetic recognised the world over. The gallery does not simply display dresses: it traces a creative lineage, from the garden to the atelier.
Why these three days deserve a place in your diary
Free access to La Galerie Dior is a genuine opportunity for anyone with an interest in fashion, craftsmanship or the history of French design. This kind of opening remains exceptional: outside the Journées Particulières, this level of behind-the-scenes access to a House of this stature is not routinely offered to the general public.
The theme chosen for this year, “Aux Racines du Rêve”, also gives the visit a particular coherence. It invites you to go back to the origins of a creation, to understand what comes before the finished piece. For La Galerie Dior, that means starting with Christian Dior’s gardens and arriving at the embroideries and cuts that made the House’s name. It is a journey that connects the living world to the handmade gesture, nature to technique.
