PARIS: Dior creative director Jonathan Anderson showed floating flower-shaped dresses and heels decorated with water lilies ​for his first autumn/winter womenswear collection at the Parisian ‌fashion house on Tuesday, as luxury conglomerate LVMH tries to breathe new life into the brand and revive sales. Staged above an octagonal pond ​in Paris’ Tuileries gardens on a sunny spring day, ​the collection continued Anderson’s nature theme with ostrich feather ⁠trims on coats and the hem of one dress ​evoking a bunch of arum lilies. Jeans covered in silver sequins ​were paired with intricately ruffled shirts and jackets. “This marks Jonathan Anderson’s fifth show for the house and his second for women’s ready-to-wear, and, for ​me, it is his strongest collection to date,” said ​Simon Longland, director of fashion buying at Harrods. Alongside Louis Vuitton, Dior is a ‌key ⁠pillar of LVMH’s fashion and leather goods business, and Bernstein analyst Luca Solca estimates the brand’s sales declined 6-8% last year. Anderson, who previously led LVMH-owned Loewe for 11 years, has ​already made his ​mark on ⁠Dior, releasing a new take on Dior’s classic cotton canvas tote bags featuring stylised book titles, ​such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and French ​classics Madame ⁠Bovary, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Bonjour Tristesse. Louis Vuitton draws fashion set to Gare du Nord for runway show Top fashion brands presenting their new collections at Paris Fashion Week must balance luxury consumers’ demand for ⁠innovative, ​high-end designs with the need to ​win back stretched middle-class shoppers as the sector faces its worst slowdown in ​years, following steep price hikes.