A-listers, aristos and heiresses head to Scotland for Dior’s Cruise ‘25 show at Drummond Castle

As ever, the glam-erati flocked en masse. Hollywood icons and red carpet mavens (Anya Taylor-Joy, Lily Collins, Jennifer Lawrence), met with sportsworld titans (Emma Raducanu) and the most eminent of London’s It-girls (Alexa Chung, Tish Weinstock, Celeste). But, when congregating at an address as historic as Drummond Castle, only a coterie of scintillating scions could make the front row sing with as much Peer-fuelled splendour as a copy of Debrett’s – as seen by a gathering of local titled guests, from the Dalmenys to Tatler‘s Social Editor, Lady Chelsea. Viscount and Viscountess Stormont were there too. Earlier in the day they had hosted a lunch at their close-by abode of Scone Palace and Viscount Stormont later donned full Scottish regalia for the show, arriving in a kilt and feathered hat. These haute heirs and heiresses proudly made their way up the paved cobbled paths of the famed gardens to take their pews.

Lady Lola Bute, whose recent birthday bash at her family seat of Mount Stuart House on the nearby Isle of Bute has been the talk of the town, made an elegant appearance in an ice-white ensemble with oversized cat-eye shades; Lady Jean Campbell, the model daughter of Lady Cawdor with a neighbouring seat of Cawdor Castle, kept it cool in a midnight-blue cape coat and knee-high patents boots; and Beatrice Borromeo, the wife of Princess Caroline of Monaco’s son Pierre Casiraghi, made it over from Monte-Carlo, oozing glamour in a grid-print Bar jacket and matching skirt.

However, it’s not the first time that Dior has conjured the dynastic elite to Bonnie Scotland. Some 50 years ago in 1955, Monsieur Dior held a fashion spectacular at Gleneagles Hotel – the Perthshire bolthole a mere stonesthrow from last night’s glittering affair. Flying in more than 170 dresses from the French atelier to flourish a catwalk housed in the grand ballroom of the hotel with supreme Parisian chic, Britain’s most glamorous aristocrats travelled due-north to see the house’s latest creations. It all ended with a traditional ceilidh, and countless orders from esteemed guests.

Alas, there was no official traditional dancing to sign off the end of last night’s captivating collection, but indeed a DJ did play into the night, inviting guests through the castle for a modern-day twirl underneath the starry sky. If you want to get on this coveted guest list, look into inheriting a castle immediately…