"When he talks like that about ideas - as he did backstage, about six hours before his sophomore menswear show for Autumn/Winter 2026 - he doesn't just mean ideas of clothes, ideas within clothes, but ideas in a wider sense. Ideas of how we can be, who we can be, ideas of the forms creativity can take in a 21st century whose breathtaking technological evolution is genuinely upending the way the human mind works."
"Across the Seine from Anderson's show venue, in the plush confines of Hôtel Le Bristol, the haute couture client Mouna Ayoub is selling ten-dozen of her Dior pieces, including John Galliano's radical rethinking of the maison in the 1990s, designs that collide Edwardiana with the nobility of Africa, or that controversially tore Dior to shreds in imitation (Celebration? Parody?) of the unhoused."
Jonathan Anderson staged his sophomore Dior Autumn/Winter 2026 menswear show on the founder's 121st birthday and ahead of the house's 80th anniversary. He presented ideas of identity, creativity and technological change, framing fashion shows as spaces for ideas. The collection drew inspiration from Paul Poiret while signaling a bold reinvention of Dior's menswear. Across the Seine, Mouna Ayoub sold dozens of Dior pieces including John Galliano's radical 1990s designs, underscoring the house's history of transformative creativity. Anderson has not yet presented haute couture, but his tenure suggests a potentially transformative era comparable to Galliano's.
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