Welcome to the third iteration of Vogue’s global spa guide, a list of the 100 best spas in the world, compiled based on first-person reviews and careful editing. This year, we’ve renewed our focus on places that have established a reputation for exceptional care of body and mind, though there is a great variety in the list. Whatever you are seeking when it comes to wellness, there is something here for you.
Why go here?
This might just be the only spa in our guide that is attached to a store, so it’s not impossible to imagine someone ascending from the boutique below to the quiet space upstairs, where a set of varied treatments awaits. The spa is small—just a handful of treatment rooms—but the plush and refined Dior aesthetic extends to every surface, and the intimate space makes the case for more upper-level, atelier-style setups, offering a different angle on retail therapy.
There are spas where you go to disappear to another planet, and there are spas where you want to walk out feeling like you could make it to your next meeting with a refreshed face; this is the latter. As Anne-Louise Pothier, Dior Beauty’s international director for wellness and hospitality, puts it: “This is a market where guests don’t come to ‘discover’ wellness; they come with high expectations, they compare, and they validate what is truly best in class.”
What’s the vibe?
Restrained and deeply attentive—you might be reminded of one of the house’s famous ateliers, with white-coated ladies attending to your skin rather than your seams. The spa feels almost hidden, tucked away on the fourth floor of the 52,000-square-foot flagship store below. (That store is a worthwhile destination even if your interests are more wellness oriented. The central staircase alone, flanked by a showcase of color-coded miniature garments illuminated like precious stones, deserves a visit.) And the spa lounge feels more like a plush backroom of the boutique, with perfume bottles lined up on display, than one of the colder, sanitarium-like spaces where other spas might have you warm up or wind down. The front-of-house staff here aren’t wearing white clinical jumpsuits but impeccable outfits in a more urban palette. For all of its rarified vibes, my facialist, Freddy, was warm and comprehensive while explaining the ins and outs of the locker system. (Someday someone will simplify this clunky hurdle of securing your stuff.) At the end you’ll be served a perfect sugar cookie in the shape of a suit jacket on a china plate, frosted with exacting precision.
What’s the history?
This is the first Dior spa in the US, and it opened at the same time as the store below it in the fall of 2025. (For some other global highlights, check out our write-up of the Dior Spa at the Plaza Athénée in Paris or the Dior Spa Eden-Roc). “From the very first conversations around the House of Dior New York, our ambition was clear: This could not be simply a retail space,” says Pothier. “We wanted to create a true Dior destination where clients can spend time, be cared for, and experience the brand beyond product.” The spa was designed and conceived of as the flagship expression of Dior skin care and as an extension of the “haute wellness” philosophy that guides all its spas, summarized by Pothier as a series of superlatives: “high-definition expertise, high-tech performance, and high-touch artistry.”
What should you try?
“What’s your main concern?” Freddy asked. “Getting older,” I replied. “Same, same,” he responded. Freddy gamely applied some antiaging products (long gone are the days when we all just pretended to be sanguine about the march of time) built from the expertise of Dior’s Reverse Aging Board, an association of 600 researchers who work with Dior to incorporate the most up-to-date research into their portfolio of skin-care products. (When I arrived at the spa, I had been using a Dior serum and moisturizer for several weeks prior. Without disclosing that to Freddy, he complimented the tone and texture of my skin, which feels like some kind of nonscientific but promising endorsement.) Recent clients have apparently also responded strongly to the Haute Couture Facial, co-created with renowned facialist Sarah Akram—a treatment that, true to its name, begins with individual skin-quality measurements and then is tailor-made for each guest.
What else do we need to know?
While I didn’t try it, the Dior light-therapy ritual has been another hit among recent guests, according to Pothier. For this treatment, an LED-studded “sky” diffuses four distinct light “atmospheres”: happiness (revitalizing bliss, exclusive to Dior Spa New York), recharge (to help reduce signs of fatigue), recover (to encourage circadian-rhythm balance), and rest (to support relaxation and sleep comfort).
Who can go?
The spa is open to anyone with an appointment.
Booking details for Dior Spa New York
Address: 23 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022
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