Dior Cruise Collection to be presented at Pierre Cardin mansion on French Riviera

According to WWD, the French luxury brand's 2016 cruise collection will take to the runway at the Palais Bulles de Pierre Cardin, on the French Riviera on May 11.

Purchased by famous French fashion designer Pierre Cardin in the early 1990s, the Palais Bulles, an immense atypical mansion on the Mediterranean coast not far from Cannes, will welcome the latest ready-to-wear collection by Raf Simons for Dior.

The show will take place on May 11, just two days before the kickoff of the 68th Cannes Film Festival, taking place May 13-24. Last year's Dior Cruise Collection fashion show took place at the Brooklyn Naval Yard in New York City.

Chanel kicked off the cruise collection season on Monday, May 4, with a fashion show in Seoul, South Korea.