Hearst is far from the first designer to take a deep dive into tarot. Fashion’s most famous of practitioners, Christian Dior, turned to the cards during World War II, when his younger sister, Catherine, was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and Maria Grazia Chiuri tapped into that tarot legacy throughout her tenure at the house. In her spring 2017 debut, she embroidered Major Arcana motifs onto delicate tulle skirts and dresses; later, she replicated iconography from the Visconti-Sforza deck for her spring 2021 couture.
