Jonathan Anderson debuts his first Dior Haute Couture collection. A Spring/Summer 2026 collection brimming with artisanal artifacts and materials that evoke memories and are a tribute to nature.

Just days after presenting the Fall/Winter 2026 men's collection, Jonathan Anderson presents his first haute couture show for Dior. This highly anticipated debut marks a key moment in the Maison's history and promises to redefine the language of Parisian haute couture. For the Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Anderson chooses not to treat couture as a terrain to be conquered, but as a system to be understood. The result is not a collection that seeks to shock with excess, but a project that reflects on the very nature of haute couture: fragile, complex, lacking certainties, and therefore in need of practice in order to survive. "Like nature," Anderson suggests in the press release, "couture does not produce definitive conclusions, but remains in constant transformation."
The show opens in a venue whose ceiling is covered in moss, grass, and cyclamen&mdash;flowers gifted to Anderson by John Galliano &mdash;transforming the space into an environment suspended between a natural installation and a cabinet of curiosities. The collection itself is conceived as a contemporary wunderkammer, in which fossils, meteorites, 18th-century textiles, and pictorial miniatures are treated not as relics but as materials active over time, capable of generating new functions and forms.

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Jonathan Anderson&#39;s first Dior Haute Couture collection

On the runway, this idea translates into silhouettes that claim space. Full skirts, gowns that seem to fill the air around the body, spherical tops, and volumes that billow without ever appearing rigid. The fabrics, often very light&mdash;fine crochet, chiffon, and fringed organza&mdash;take on an almost architectural dimension, demonstrating how craftsmanship can transform the fragile into structure. The draped dresses follow the body without confining it, amplifying its gestures. The dialogue with nature is constant but never illustrative. The floral motifs are not simply decorative; they grow beneath the cover of inflorescences on the dresses, emerge from the shoulder straps, insinuate themselves into the earrings, and seem to continue, ideally, on the models' bodies. Almost recalling the transformative moment of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne sculpture. It is a return to nature filtered by culture and memory, where every reference is mediated by craftsmanship. Thus, the flowers are cut from silk or compressed into dense embroidery, while light surfaces overlap vaporously like feathers.

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Particularly significant is the introduction of knitwear into the couture language, an extension that speaks of craftsmanship and time, as well as of experimentation. Similarly, bags make their debut in Dior Haute Couture not as accessories but as sculptural objects: crafted from 18th-century French fabrics, ornamental stones, and colored lacquers, they balance archive and imagination, including reinterpretations of the Lady Dior as part of a broader discourse on the transformation of legacy.
Trompe-l'oeil effects also emerge in the footwear, with silk cyclamen petals and slightly raised square toes referencing an archive Roger Vivier design for the Maison. Couture jewelry completes the picture: 18th-century oval miniatures are reborn as brooches framed by pearls and hand-painted orchids, while bracelets and rings in ornamental stones and meteorite fragments expand the concept of nature to include the extraterrestrial.
Closing the show was a white wedding dress worn by Mona Tougaard, Anderson's first bridal couture creation for Dior. In parallel with the collection, Dior will present "Grammar of Forms" at the Mus&eacute;e Rodin, an exhibition that brings Anderson's creations into dialogue with iconic Christian Dior pieces and the ceramics of Magdalene Odundo. A coherent extension of the project, it reaffirms a central idea: couture is not a language to be preserved under glass, but a form of knowledge that exists only when it is put back into circulation.

Watch the video of the Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2026 fashion show

Dior Spring-Summer 2026 Haute Couture show

Stars and guests at the Dior Haute Couture show

From Anya Taylor-Joy to Deva Cassel, and the eagerly awaited Rihanna as the face of J'Adore Dior, the House's ambassadors reflect a diverse and powerful femininity. At the Dior Haute Couture show, the front row is a who's who of personalities from the worlds of film, music, art, and popular culture. Alongside them, actresses such as Jennifer Lawrence, Monica Barbaro, Taylor Russell, Greta Lee, Camille Cottin, Rebecca Marder, Alba Rohrwacher, Ruth Wilson, Hafsia Herzi, and Zhou Ye embody a sophisticated, international cinema, capable of moving between mainstream and auteur cinema. Music finds its voice in the intensity of Ethel Cain and Little Simz, while figures such as Laetitia Casta, Beatrice Borromeo, and Parker Posey add an iconic and transversal dimension. The lineup is completed by talents and personalities from the cultural and creative world, including actor and friend of Jonathan Anderson, Josh O'Connor, Wang Yuwen, Lauren Santo Domingo, Adot Gak, Marisa Berenson, the artist Anthea Hamilton, and Victoria de Marichalar.

Dior Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture Marks Jonathan Anderson’s Visionary Debut

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