Cruise collections are usually sold as a fantasy of escape: the faraway destination, the perfect suitcase , the woman breezing beautifully through some glamorous, far-flung place in silk scarves and woven bags. Jonathan Anderson’s Dior show at LACMA imagined a much more interesting woman: the one who comes to Los Angeles to become someone. L.A. has always belonged to that woman. The aspiring actress showing up to casting calls with impossible optimism. The writer convinced she has the next great script in her tote . The woman reinventing herself after a breakup, a burnout, or both. It is the city that helped turn Norma Jeane into Marilyn Monroe; where Joan Didion and Eve Babitz built entire aesthetics around women in various states of glamour, ambition, and unraveling; where countless women have arrived hoping to become stars, or at least leave as someone different than they were when they got there. The setting helped sell it.…