On October 1 in the Jardin des Tuileries, Dior presented its 2026 RTW collection by Jonathan Anderson, which brilliantly reimagined the House’s heritage through an empathetic, deeply humanistic lens.
Drawing from the archive, Anderson wove familiar codes into new forms. The bow—an enduring Dior signature—appeared everywhere, reinterpreted in pinch-front coats, draped cotton drill miniskirts, airy lace dresses, and the new Dior Cigale top-handle bag. Shrunken Bar jackets took on sculptural proportions, while rippling capes and voluminous shorts echoed both his June debut and the House’s couture lineage. The result was a study in tension and transformation, offering a spectrum of attitudes and self-expressions.
The show space, conceived by Luca Guadagnino and Stefano Baisi, blurred the line between digital and physical realms. A specially commissioned film by documentary auteur Adam Curtis unfolded across an inverted LED pyramid—Dior’s past flickering in fragments before collapsing into the form of a Dior shoe box. It was a poetic gesture: memory as something preserved, contained, and perpetually open to rediscovery.
photographs by Adrien Dirand
