It's a tribute to the Japanese paper folding art of origami and to the couture technique of pleating, which Dior has employed ever since the creation of the Bar jacket and its perfectly pleated skirt.

On February 12, 1947, a new couturier named Christian Dior presented his first show to the press. In an elegant salon on the Avenue Montaigne, a model sauntered out wearing a calf-grazing skirt ...