Jonathan Anderson’s debut haute couture collection for Dior Spring/Summer 2026 arrived like a poetic laboratory of wonder. Guests filtered into the intimate space inside the Musée Rodin on Monday to find an upside down meadow of cyclamen flowers and moss on the ceiling of the room. Inspired by the rhythms of nature and objects imbued with time like meteorites, fossils, 18th-century fabrics, and miniature portraits, Anderson approached his first couture collectio for the house as a living archive, where heritage and experimentation intersect.
Structured yet fluid, the collection felt both ethereal and intentional. Flowey draped silk georgettes twisted over ruched tulle, technical knits bubbled into sculptural forms, and feathered embroideries rendered flora and fauna in painstaking detail. Anderson worked with the house’s vocabulary expanding without losing sight of its roots: balloon tops, asymmetrical skirts, and trompe-l’œil tailoring recalled Dior’s archives, reimagined with a contemporary, almost scientific precision.
Couture accessories take center stage as art objects in their own right. Moulded handbags, embroidered with 18th-century fabrics or vibrant natural motifs, and shoes adorned with silk petals and trompe-l’œil scales, echo the collection’s attention to craft and the uncanny beauty of the micro and macro. Jewelry included brooches, cuffs, and rings crafted from meteorite fragments bridging the terrestrial and celestial worlds into wearable art.
Anderson’s Dior couture is a “wunderkammer” for the body: a tactile museum of textures, histories, and narratives, where each look is a meditation on the passage of time and the act of creation. From delicate cyclamen bouquets to sculptural Bar jackets and architectural capes, the collection celebrates craft as preservation, imagination as survival, and couture as a way of seeing and carrying forward the world.
Discover the collection below.
