LONDON MOMENT: The Victoria & Albert Museum is shifting the spotlight onto Christian Dior for its next major fashion exhibition, opening in February. The London museum plans to adapt “Christian Dior: Couturier of Dreams,” the popular show that opened last year at Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs, for a U.K. audience. The exhibition will be the largest Dior exhibition held in the country and the V&A’s biggest fashion exhibition since “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.” The collaboration between the French house and the museum was announced during a cocktail held Sunday evening at the British embassy in Paris in the presence of Dior chief executive officer Pietro Beccari and Maria Grazia Chiuri, artistic director of women’s collections, who was set to present her fall haute couture collection the following day. The show will trace the history of the house and the impact of Christian Dior, and the six artistic directors who succeeded him. A new section will be added that explores Christian Dior’s relationship with Britain, from his fascination with English gardens, Savile Row and British ocean liners, to his circle of London-based clients, including Nancy Mitford and Margot Fonteyn. “Reimagining this hugely popular exhibition from Paris — as the largest fashion exhibition the V&A

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